You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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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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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.
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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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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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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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