I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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