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.
BANKSYIf 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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