It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYGraffiti 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.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYGaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
BANKSYGraffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSYIt’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
BANKSYIn the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYPeople seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BANKSYBus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSYGraffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSYThe art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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.
BANKSYA wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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