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.
BANKSYWe don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
More Banksy Quotes
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People 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.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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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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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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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 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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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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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 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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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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