Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYNobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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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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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 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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