Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSYNobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
More Banksy Quotes
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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