It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

Banksy

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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. by Banksy

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

should comfort art

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

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.

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.

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.

internet people looks

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but th... by Banksy

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

ironic graffiti people

If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. by Banksy

If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it.

ifs matter

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't... by Banksy

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

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.

taken home art

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

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

wall-and-piece graffiti knows

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art... by Banksy

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

bus-stops museums art

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat. by Banksy

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

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.

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

real people art

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the... by Banksy

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

want world interesting

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky by Banksy

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

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.

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.

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.

names writing profound

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet. by Banksy

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

negative-people negativity graffiti