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.
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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