Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
More Banksy Quotes
-
-
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
BANKSY -
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY -
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY -
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSY -
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY -
Keep your coins, I want change.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY -
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY






