I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BANKSYWe can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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