Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
More Banksy Quotes
-
-
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSY -
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSY -
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY -
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
BANKSY -
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY -
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY -
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSY -
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY -
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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 -
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.
BANKSY






