Banksy citations

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

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

“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.”

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

“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.”

“Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.”

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

“It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.”

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

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.”

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.”

“Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.”

“People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.”

“You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.”

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

“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.”

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

“If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.”

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”

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

“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

“If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.”

“Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realize that reciting red Indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking Muppet.”

“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.”

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

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

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