Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
More Banksy Quotes
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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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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