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.
BANKSYThe greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Is 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.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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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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