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.
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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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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The 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.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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