It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
More Banksy Quotes
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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 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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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