The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
BANKSYNobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
More Banksy Quotes
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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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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Although 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.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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’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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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