Author: Banksy

Quotes

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

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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