The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
BANKSYA lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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