Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYI’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.
More Banksy Quotes
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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