Gaza 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.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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The 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.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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 can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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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