People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSYI’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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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 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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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