Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
More Banksy Quotes
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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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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