The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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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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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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