I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSYGraffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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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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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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