I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYIn the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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It’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.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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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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I’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.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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 want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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