black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

Banksy

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.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
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.
BANKSY

Artist Self Views
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSY

Art Bus Stops Museums
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.
BANKSY

Asking Business World
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BANKSY

Fighter Fighting War
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BANKSY

Feels Knows Nobody
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.
BANKSY

Night People Sleep
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY

Art Cheating Deep Thought
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.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two
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.
BANKSY

Artist Graffiti Writing
If 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.
BANKSY

Citiy Name School
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSY

Meaningless Original Quote Thought
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.
BANKSY

Cities Past School
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSY

Journey Live Your Life Okay
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
BANKSY

Art Guilty House

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Banksy Quotes