I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYWhen he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSYAlthough 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.
BANKSYI’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSYModern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
BANKSYNot everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSYI’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.
BANKSYI 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.
BANKSYI don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BANKSYI originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSYI have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
BANKSYWe can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSYI 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.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSYI just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSYPeople who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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