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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.

Banksy

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.
BANKSY

Art Home Taken
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Wall
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSY

Art House People
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
BANKSY

Names Profound Writing
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Street Tools
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
BANKSY

Looks People White
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.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti People
Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSY

Dies Hero Villain
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSY

Care Hate People
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.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti People
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.
BANKSY

Night People Sleep
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

Independent People Use
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSY

Meaningless Original Quote Thought
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSY

Apples Pie Sick
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.
BANKSY

Citiy Name School

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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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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