All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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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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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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