I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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