I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in. Banksy More Quotes by Banksy More Quotes From Banksy Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Banksy should comfort art Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand. Banksy live-your-life okay journey I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it. Banksy painting alive art Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet. Banksy bus-stops wall party I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens. Banksy internet people looks People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. Banksy ironic graffiti people If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. Banksy ifs matter I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it! Banksy over-it paint world The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little. Banksy taken home art Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was Banksy wall-and-piece graffiti knows Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Banksy bus-stops museums art You can win the rat race but you're still a rat. Banksy race winning inspirational I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. Banksy invisibility details people 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 Banksy real people art There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place. Banksy want world interesting You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky Banksy castles sky needs Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee. Banksy graffiti artist writing 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. Banksy creativity mind art I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. Banksy names writing profound The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet. Banksy negative-people negativity graffiti
