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.
More Banksy Quotes
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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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.
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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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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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 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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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