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.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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