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.
BANKSYThe bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
More Banksy Quotes
-
-
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY -
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSY -
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSY -
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSY -
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY -
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.
BANKSY -
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY -
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSY -
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSY -
I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BANKSY -
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSY -
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSY