The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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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 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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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