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.
BANKSYPeople seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
More Banksy Quotes
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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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