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.
BANKSYThe thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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