T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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 don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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