black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Banksy

It’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.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSY

Graffiti Mind People
Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Important
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSY

Interesting Make Place World
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BANKSY

Feels Knows Nobody
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

Climbing Drunk Skills
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.
BANKSY

Art Home Taken
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.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years
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.
BANKSY

Citiy Name School
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSY

Animal Art Free Wild
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

Dirty Models Role Sex
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSY

Art Bus Stops Museums
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSY

Art Encourage Much Used
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

Independent People Use
Live as a villain, die as a hero
BANKSY

Dies Hero Villain

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Banksy Quotes