Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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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 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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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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 one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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