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.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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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