It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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