We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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