Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSYBecome good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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