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.
BANKSYNot everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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 people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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