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.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Gaza 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.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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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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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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