Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSYIf 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.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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