Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYNothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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If 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.
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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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I 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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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