Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYI just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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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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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 need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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