I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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 mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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.
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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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