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.
BANKSYThere’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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 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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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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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 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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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.
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