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.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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