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.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about 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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I’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.
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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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