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.
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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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 don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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