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.
BANKSYIt’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
More Banksy Quotes
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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