Banksy cytaty

„Nie słuchaliście mnie, dopóki nie zasłoniłem twarzy.”

„Istnieją choć nie mają na to pozwolenia. Są znienawidzone i prześladowane.
Żyją w syfie, w cichej rozpaczy. A jednak mają siłę by zmusić całe cywilizacje by upadły przed nimi na kolana.
Jeżeli jesteś brudny, niewiele znaczysz i nikt Cię nie kocha, to szczur jest dla Ciebie idealnym wzorcem osobowym.”

„Dopiero gdy wytną ostatnie drzewo a ostatnia rzeka zamieni się w cienką, brudną stróżkę.
Syn człowieczy pojmie że nie można jeść pieniędzy, zaś ciągłe powtarzanie przysłów sprawia, że brzmisz jak ciota.”

„Artyści są gotowi cierpieć za sztukę, czemu tak niewielu jest gotowych na to, by nauczyć się rysować.”

„Kiedy nadejdzie twój czas, odejdź spokojnie i nie rób wokół tego zbytniego szumu.”

„Najnowsze badania w USA wykazały że 42% mężczyzn cierpi na nadwagę, 34% jest w stanie krytycznej otyłości, a 8% zjadło kwestionariusz.”

„Palestyna jest okupowana przez armię Izraela od 1967 roku. W 2002 roku rząd Izraela rozpoczął budowę muru oddzielającego okupowane terytorium od Izraela. W świetle prawa międzynarodowego większość tych prac jest nielegalna. Mur jest ściśle kontrolowany, najeżony wieżami wartowniczymi i strzeżonymi przejściami. Ma wysokość trzy razy taką, jak mur berliński i w końcowej fazie ma osiągnąć siedemset kilometrów długości – to dystans jak z Londynu do Zurychu. Obecnie Palestyna jest największym na świecie więzieniem na świeżym powietrzu i wymarzonym miejscem na wakacje dla artystów graffiti.”

„Czasami kondycja świata przyprawia mnie o takie mdłości, że nie potrafię dokończyć drugiej porcji szarlotki.”

“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.”