Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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