Banksy Quotes

I was concerned the piece was a bit too much like a legitimate sign and told my mate I thought it went over people's heads. 'It's not that it goes over people's heads,' he said, 'it's just that they all fucking ducked.'

On my first day of work as a pork butcher the boss showed me a side of meat and said 'just treat the animal like you treat the ladies.' He then hacked off part of the rib cage with a swing of his cleaver, threw it in a polystyrene tray, pulled some cellophane tightly around it, bounced it off his knee and threw it over his shoulder into a bucket. It turned out he hadn't had a girlfriend for over two years.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and defies the law of gravity at the same time is really good.

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

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

Last year there was a story on the news that went 'A man arrested in Central London today was found to be carrying over a hundred British passports, twenty birth certificates and more than three hundred driving licenses. Police say they have not yet been able to identify the man...'

Being yourself is overrated anyway. It doesn't help. People say 'I'm just being myself' as if that's some kind of fucking achievement. That's not an achievement, that's not honesty, it's just a lack of imagination and cowardice.

Nobody ever listened to me and I used to think that was their fault. Eventually I got to realise maybe it was the fact I was boring and paranoid that was the problem. But you find that people who know you rarely listen to a word you say, even though they'll happily take as gospel the word of a man they've never met if it's on a record or in a book. If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Oh my god, that's so cute the way you just draw on stuff and think about yourself all the time.

An illegal monument to the British talent for binge drinking and vandalising public property.

Recipe idea: take on fire extinguisher and pour out all the contents. Mix down a nice bright emulsion paint to the consistency of full fat milk, stirring constantly to remove any lumps. Pour into the extinguisher, screw on cap tightly and write on things up to 50 feet high. Re-use by swapping over the CO2 charged canister (costs about one pound). The perfect accompaniment to a night out drinking heavily with friends.

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

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

People seem to think that if they dress like a revolutionary, they don't actually have to behave like one.

I think I was trying to make a statement about the endless recycling of an icon by endlessly recycling an icon.