Banksy Quotes

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.

A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

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.

We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.