Banksy

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

“It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.”

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

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

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

“I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.”

“At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.”

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

“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.”

“I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.”

“Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.”

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

“I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.”

“I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

“You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.”

“A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.”

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

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

“I give away thousands of paintings for free.”

“All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.”