Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSYBecome good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
More Banksy Quotes
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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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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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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