Banksy Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  Art, Creativity, Mind

• 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.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, Graffiti

• When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

  Banksy

  Art, Tourists, Cabinets

  "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

• Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

  Banksy

  Art, Comfort, Should

  "Banksy Sells Works to Unsuspecting Tourists for Total of 420 Bucks, Shakes Very Foundation of Art" by Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 14, 2013.

• The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

  Banksy

  Art, Order, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

• 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

  Art, Real, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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

  Banksy

  Cheating, Art, Deep Thought

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

• There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

  Banksy

  Art, Sex, Revenge

• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Graffiti, Littles

• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Hate, Creativity

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

  Banksy

  Art, People, Holy Grail

  "Something to Spray". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2003.

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

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Graffiti

• 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

  Art, Alive, Painting

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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

  Banksy

  Art, People, House

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Graffiti

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

• 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.

  Banksy

  Art, Lying, People

  Martin Bull, Banksy (2011). “Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the U.K.”, p.144, PM Press

• 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

  Art, Taken, Home

  Source: prefuse.net

• I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  Banksy

  Art, Thinking, Age

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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

  Banksy

  Art, Museums, Bus Stops

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

• I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

  Banksy

  Art, Order, Needs

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

• Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

  Banksy

  Art, Important, Graffiti

• I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something.

  Banksy

  Art, Book, Mean

• Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

  Banksy

  Art, Police, Today

  "Banksy street stall prints, sold for $60, set to make small fortune at Bonham's" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2014.

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

  Banksy

  Art, Morning, War

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

• 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

  Art, House, Guilty

  Source: www.timeout.com

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