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.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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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 only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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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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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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