You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYYou don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSYBecome good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSYPeople are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
BANKSYI’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.
BANKSYGaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYWe don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSYAnyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSYI 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.
BANKSYGraffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BANKSYI 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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYIf it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSYAlthough you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
BANKSYI originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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