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Painting Quotes by Banksy
- T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
- 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…
- 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…
- If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
More Painting Quotes
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat