One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSYI’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
More Banksy Quotes
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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