If 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.
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.
More Banksy Quotes
-
-
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.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSY -
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSY -
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSY -
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSY -
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSY -
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 -
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY -
Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSY -
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY