At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
BANKSYAt this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
BANKSYIf Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSYThe Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
BANKSYPeople who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSYA recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
BANKSYIf you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSYIs graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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.
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.
BANKSYA wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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.
BANKSYThe grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
BANKSYAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSYI 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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