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.
BANKSYPeople are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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