Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYAlthough you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
More Banksy Quotes
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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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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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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