Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
BANKSYThere are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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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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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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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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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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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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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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