Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSYIf 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.
BANKSYI’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.
BANKSYA wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSYThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSYSome people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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.
BANKSYIs graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
BANKSYArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSYIt’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSYSometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSYThe bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSYSome people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSYI 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.
BANKSYIf 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.
BANKSY