Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSYPeople seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
More Banksy Quotes
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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.
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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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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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.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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