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.
BANKSYThe 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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.
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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 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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