The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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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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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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 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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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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