All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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