Some 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.
BANKSYIf you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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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