Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYI have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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 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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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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 like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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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 feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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