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.
BANKSYI mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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.
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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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