Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSYIn the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
More Banksy Quotes
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about 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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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 thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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