Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSYA wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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