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.
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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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