If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSYPeople who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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 doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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 either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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