Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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.
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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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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 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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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