Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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 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.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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.
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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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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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