Banksy Quotes

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

~ Banksy

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.

~ Banksy

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

~ Banksy

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

~ Banksy

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

~ Banksy

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

~ Banksy

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.

~ Banksy

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

~ Banksy

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

~ Banksy

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

~ Banksy

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

~ Banksy

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

~ Banksy

You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say I want to be famous. You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.

~ Banksy

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

~ Banksy

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.

~ Banksy

This revolution is for display purposes only.

~ Banksy

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

~ Banksy

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.

~ Banksy

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

~ Banksy

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

~ Banksy

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.

~ Banksy

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

~ Banksy

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

~ Banksy

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

~ Banksy

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

~ Banksy

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

~ Banksy