If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BANKSYI don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
More Banksy Quotes
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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