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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.

Banksy

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.
BANKSY

Inspiring Movie World
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSY

Interesting Make Place World
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.
BANKSY

Names Profound Writing
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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.
BANKSY

Art Guilty House
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.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two
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.
BANKSY

Artist Self Views
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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Art Graffiti Important
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSY

Care Hate People
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Artist Draws Suffering
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall

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 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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