I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
BANKSYI 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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 art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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