Banksy Art Quotes

#1. I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

Moby

#2. For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence.

Peggy Joyce Ruth

#3. and gestured. A number of students were taking notes, some

Robert B. Parker

#4. 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.

Banksy

#5. People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly.

Banksy

#6. 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.

Banksy

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

Banksy

#8. Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.

James O'Shaughnessy

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

Banksy

#10. 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.

Banksy

#11. 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.

Banksy

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

Banksy

#13. Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Banksy

#14. I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it

Banksy

#15. God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

Banksy

#17. But mostly I had books - so many books, and they were mine; I would not have to part with them. It had always been a dream of mine to just own a lot of books, to never part with a book once I had read it.

Jamaica Kincaid

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

Banksy

#19. The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

Banksy

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

Banksy

#21. 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.

Banksy

#22. Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

John F. Kerry

#23. You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Vladimir Lenin

#24. I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

Chip Giller

#25. So instead of suggesting that we could escape the earth to go to heaven, Jesus's good news was about heaven coming to earth.

N. T. Wright

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

Banksy

#27. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

Banksy

#28. I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

Banksy

#29. 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.

Banksy

#30. Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'
affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

Banksy

#31. Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

Banksy

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

Banksy

#33. 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.

Banksy

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

Banksy

#35. 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