It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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