Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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