Quotes by Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you dont come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while theyre having a piss.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

At this time of year its easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

You dont need planning permission to build castles in the sky.

Youre mind is working at its best when youre being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

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

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but thats only if its done properly.

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

Theres nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. We the people--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say I want to be famous. You ask them for what reason and they dont know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.

Ive never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesnt seem very appealing to me.

My main problem with cops is that they do what theyre told. They say Sorry mate, Im just doing my job all the fucking time.

This revolution is for display purposes only.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I cant even finish my second apple pie.

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.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.