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.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
More Banksy Quotes
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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 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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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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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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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