You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
More Banksy Quotes
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I’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.
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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 can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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