A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
More Banksy Quotes
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate 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 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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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