There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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 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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