People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSYI need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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