The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
BANKSYIf you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
More Banksy Quotes
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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 have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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It’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.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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.
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