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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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