Banksy Quotes

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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.

  Banksy

  Journey, Live Your Life, Okay

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• Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

  Banksy

  Art, Comfort, Should

  "Banksy Sells Works to Unsuspecting Tourists for Total of 420 Bucks, Shakes Very Foundation of Art" by Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 14, 2013.

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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.

  Banksy

  Art, Alive, Painting

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

  Banksy

  Graffiti, Wall And Piece, Knows

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it.
  If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.

  Banksy

  Matter, Ifs

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• Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

  Banksy

  Hipster, Graffiti, Speak

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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  People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

  Banksy

  People, Ironic, Graffiti

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Graffiti

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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.

  Banksy

  Art, Order, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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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!

  Banksy

  World, Paint, Over It

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• There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

  Banksy

  Interesting, World, Want

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• You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Winning, Race

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.

  Banksy

  Nobody Knows, Feels, Knows

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• A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

  Banksy

  Independent, People, Use

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

  Banksy

  Artist, Stealing, Great Art

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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.

  Banksy

  People, Details, Invisibility

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• Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

  Banksy

  Wall, Party, Bus Stops

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• Fight the fighters, not their wars.

  Banksy

  War, Fighting, Fighter

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• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Taken, Home

  Source: prefuse.net

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• Live as a villain, die as a hero

  Banksy

  Hero, Villain, Dies

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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

  Banksy

  Art, Real, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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  Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

  Banksy

  Art, Museums, Bus Stops

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

  Banksy

  Sky, Castles, Needs

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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.

  Banksy

  Writing, Artist, Graffiti

  "Stencil Graffiti". Book by Tristan Manco, 2002.

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• Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Graffiti

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