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.
BANKSYPeople 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.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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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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You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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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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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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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 art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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 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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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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