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.
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.
BANKSYFilm is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
BANKSYSpeak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSYT.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSYI’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.
BANKSYGraffiti 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.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYA recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
BANKSYI used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSYKeep your coins, I want change.
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.
BANKSYA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSYStencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSYIn the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSYThe 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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