I 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.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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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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