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.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
More Banksy Quotes
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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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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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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