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.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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’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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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