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
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
-
-
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSY -
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY -
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
BANKSY -
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY -
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
BANKSY -
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
BANKSY -
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSY -
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY