Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSYThe 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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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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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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 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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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