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.
BANKSYYou 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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.
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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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