Banksy Quotes

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

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

Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.

Conversations don't get any better as you get older.

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

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

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today.

I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I'd had an epiphany that night [about using stencils] and she told me to stop taking that drug 'cos it's bad for your heart.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas everyday, 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.

If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...

Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.

We don't need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.