If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
BANKSYI don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
More Banksy Quotes
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless 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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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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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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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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