Banksy Quotes - Page 2

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.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.... any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

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.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

Keep your coins, I want change.

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

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

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.

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

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

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those 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 somebody smile while they're having a piss.

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.

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