A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSYIf Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
More Banksy Quotes
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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If 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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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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