I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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