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.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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