A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSYI tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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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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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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