Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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 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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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