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.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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