Art Quotes by Banksy

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

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on…

— Banksy

“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high…

— Banksy

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.”

— Banksy

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to…

— Banksy

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be…

— Banksy

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to…

— Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with…

— Banksy

Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in…

— Banksy

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern…

— Banksy

I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art…

— Banksy

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the…

— Banksy

Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become…

— Banksy

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public…

— Banksy

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas…

— Banksy

I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were…

— Banksy

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something…

— Banksy

“Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a great and glorious nation. Favourite amongst his subjects was the court…

— Banksy

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist… I don't do that any more.

— Banksy

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

— Banksy

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead…

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people…

— Banksy

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

— Banksy

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free…

— Banksy

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's…

— Banksy

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

— Banksy

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…

— Banksy

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't…

— Banksy