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.
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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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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.
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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.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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