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.
BANKSYThe bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
More Banksy Quotes
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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