Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSYI need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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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