Banksy Quotes
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Banksy Quotes & Sayings
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In BANKSY we trust.
— Colin Tegerdine
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
— Banksy
Live as a villain, die as a hero
— Banksy
It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
— Banksy
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
— Banksy
I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
— Banksy
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
— Banksy
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
— Banksy
Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
— Banksy
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
— Banksy
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.
— Banksy
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
— Banksy
There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
— Banksy
Banksy is a poet, but so was hitler.
— Atticus
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
— Banksy
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
— Banksy
I could sit in a pub and tell you all the things that are written in this book but you wouldn't fucking listen.
— Banksy
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
— Banksy
Be positive, patient and persistent.
— Banksy
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.
— Banksy
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw? — Banksy
to learn to draw? — Banksy
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
— Banksy
Keep your coins, I want change.
— Banksy
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
— Banksy
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly.
— Banksy
The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.
— Banksy
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
— Banksy
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
— 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
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,
— Banksy
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. — Banksy
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. — Banksy
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,
— Banksy
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
— 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
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
— Banksy
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. — Banksy
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. — Banksy
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
— Banksy
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they'd be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
— Banksy