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.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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 all along.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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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.
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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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