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.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
More Banksy Quotes
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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 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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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