Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYI’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.
More Banksy Quotes
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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