Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSYAll graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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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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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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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 need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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