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.
BANKSYA recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
More Banksy Quotes
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless 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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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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