Banksy Quotes

Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it and there's no admission fee.

As far as I can tell, the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on day trips with the art department.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

'There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.' — Metropolitan Police Spokesperson

Pace yourself and repeat [graffitiing] as often as you feel inadequate and no-one listens to a word you say.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

Well I'm frustrated by many things but trying to get accepted by the art world isn't one of them. This seems difficult for some people to understand - you do not paint graffiti in the vain hope that one day some big fat tory will discover you and put your pictures on his wall. If you draw on walls in public then you are already operating on a higher level.

There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.

"When the paintings suddenly started going for, like, really big money it definitely weirded me out, and I kind of went away to the middle of nowhere and I stopped making any more paintings. But the whole time the auction houses were just selling paintings that I’d done years before and sold for not much money. Or paintings that I traded for a haircut or, you know, an ounce of weed and they were going for like 50 grand." (lightly edited)

'Only boys with small dicks paint pictures of big guns' - a girl in the pub overlooking Mono Lisa [holding a rocket launcher], Soho

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

Why would someone just paint pictures of a revolutionary when you could actually behave like one instead?

In a recent survey of American men 42% were found to overeat, 34% were critically overweight, 10% technically obese, and 8% ate the survey.