If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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