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.
BANKSYThe greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
More Banksy Quotes
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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