When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
BANKSYIt’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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.
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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.
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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 slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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 tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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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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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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