Banksy Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

• 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.

• Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

  Banksy

  Real, Oil, People

  "Banksy: The Graffitist Goes Straight". www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2009.

• I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

  Banksy

  Art, Clever, Years

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

• Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

  Banksy

  Art, Wall, Mean

• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Covered Up, Security Guards

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

• Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

  Banksy

  Law, Land, Painting

• People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

  Banksy

  Country, Military, Army

• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Civilization, Role Models

• If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

  Banksy

  Live For Today, Alive, Painting

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

• I give away thousands of paintings for free.

  Banksy

  Giving, Painting

  "Banksy Was Here" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

• 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

  New Orleans, Two, Car

  Source: www.timeout.com

• The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

  Banksy

  White, People, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

• T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

  Banksy

  Photography, Progress, Theatre

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

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