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
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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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 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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