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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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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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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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