Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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The 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.
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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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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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