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.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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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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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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