Quotes About Banksy His Art

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

Banksy

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

Simon Cowell

#5. As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

Asa Don Brown

#6. 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

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

Banksy

#8. 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

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

Banksy

#10. Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Gautama Buddha

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

Moby

#12. 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

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

Banksy

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

Banksy

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

Banksy

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

Banksy

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

Banksy

#18. I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.

Kevin Mitnick

#19. 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

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

Banksy

#21. 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

#22. I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

Banksy

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Banksy

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

Banksy

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

Banksy

#30. Ain't got so much moral ground to stand on.

A.C. Gaughen

#31. Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want you to know that.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

#32. 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

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

Banksy