I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYKeep your coins, I want change.
More Banksy Quotes
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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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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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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