Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSYThe 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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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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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 Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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