Banksy Quotes

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.

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

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

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.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

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

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

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

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.

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.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

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

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.

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires

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