Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSYWe don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
More Banksy Quotes
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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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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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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