You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSYYou can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSYWhen he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSYIf 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.
BANKSYThe Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
BANKSYFight the fighters, not their wars.
BANKSYI don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSYThe bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSYI just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSYIf 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.
BANKSYI love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYThink outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
BANKSYPeople either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSYI’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.
BANKSYIf 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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