There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSYToday’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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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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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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