Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSYThe bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
More Banksy Quotes
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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.
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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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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.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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 one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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.
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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