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.
BANKSYSpeak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
More Banksy Quotes
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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’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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People 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.
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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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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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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