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Art Quotes by Banksy
- Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to…
- Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
- 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…
- Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we…
- 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.…
- Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.
- Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff…
- 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…
- 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…
- When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
- I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d…
- Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that
- 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…
- Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums,
- I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
- Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
- You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total…
- A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
- People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
- 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…
- 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…
- Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
- If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you…
- As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the…
- The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
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- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov