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.
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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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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