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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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