Banksy Quotes

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.

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.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

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.

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.

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.

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

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.