More from Banksy
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BanksyBanksy In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BanksyBanksy We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BanksyBanksy People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BanksyBanksy I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BanksyBanksy Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy 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.
BanksyBanksy Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BanksyBanksy People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BanksyBanksy I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BanksyBanksy 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.
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From our community writers
In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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Let’s let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don’t you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.
Ben CarsonBen Carson As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I’ve got to do get my guys going I’ll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I’ll guess I’ll take that. That’s what a leader and a general and a chief of police does.
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn’t understand its responsibility and feels more like it’s an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
Ben CarsonBen Carson The P.C. police are out in force at all times… We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
Ben CarsonBen Carson There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Gore VidalGore Vidal How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet – it’s gone.
Marlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
Gore VidalGore Vidal An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
William FeatherWilliam Feather
