Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BANKSYWhen you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
More Banksy Quotes
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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 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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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.
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