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.
BANKSYNothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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 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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