Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSYNobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
More Banksy Quotes
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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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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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