It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSYI wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
More Banksy Quotes
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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