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.
BANKSYA lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
More Banksy Quotes
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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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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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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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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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.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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