Latest Banksy Quotes from Interviews

• 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

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.

  Banksy

  Believe, Ties, Cartoon

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• 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

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• 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

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

  Banksy

  Art, Animal, Wild And Free

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody else tell me what to do. If you're the type who gets sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for you.

  Banksy

  Good Luck, Artist, People

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

• All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.

  Banksy

  Pareja, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: prefuse.net

• El mundo del arte es el mayor chiste que existe. Es una casa de reposo para los privilegiados, los pretenciosos y los débiles. Y el arte moderno es una vergüenza: nunca tanta gente ha utilizado tantas cosas y ha tardado tanto en decir tan poco.

  Banksy

  Arte, Tomado, Hogar

  Fuente: prefuse.net

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