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.
BANKSYFilm is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
More Banksy Quotes
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of 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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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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 like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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