Author: 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.

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

- Banksy

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

- Banksy

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

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

- Banksy

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.

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.

- Banksy

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

- Banksy

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

- Banksy

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

- Banksy

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

- Banksy

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.

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.

- Banksy

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