Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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 don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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