I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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