T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
More Banksy Quotes
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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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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