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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More Banksy Quotes
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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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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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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 Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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 just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over 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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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