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.
BANKSYIf it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
More Banksy Quotes
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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