I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
BANKSYThere’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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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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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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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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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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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