Banksy Quotes - Page 3

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

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

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

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

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

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.

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.

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

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

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

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

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

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

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

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

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.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line