Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
More Banksy Quotes
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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