Banksy Quotes about Art

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.