You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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