I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSY
BANKSY
Banksy on graffiti
Banksy115 quotes“I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.”
More from Banksy
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BanksyBanksy Keep your coins, I want change.
BanksyBanksy If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BanksyBanksy Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
BanksyBanksy Live as a villain, die as a hero
BanksyBanksy At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
BanksyBanksy Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BanksyBanksy Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BanksyBanksy
Original quotes
From our community writers
Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery
Meet the writers
More on graffiti
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BanksyBanksy I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BanksyBanksy Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy