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
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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 have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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.
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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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