I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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’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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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