Banksy: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.”

“I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in—like peace and justice and freedom.”

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

“When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.”

“Fight the fighters, not their wars.”

“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.”

“The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art… Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.”

“I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.”

“People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do.
We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more
like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a
country without an army.”

“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”

“If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.”

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

“Be positive, patient and persistent.”

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

“We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.”

“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.”

“The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse. What we need in this race is a lot more streakers.”

“[I first picked up a spray can] the day someone ram-raided the Halfords round the corner from our house.”

“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…”