The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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You 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.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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