When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSYAt this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
More Banksy Quotes
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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