Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
More Banksy Quotes
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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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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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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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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