People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
BANKSYI 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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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.
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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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I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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