All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BANKSYIf 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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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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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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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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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 cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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