Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
BANKSYShould # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
More Banksy Quotes
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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