Banksy Quotes
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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.
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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.
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
