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.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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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.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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