It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless 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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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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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I’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.
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