BANKSY INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

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

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

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

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.”

“You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky.”

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.”

“Art should worry less about mocking the powerful and more about empowering the weak.”

“There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”

“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 colors and little phrases.”

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”

“The crime is not the act of making art, but using it to hoodwink the art market.”

“In a world so fake, originality is a rebellion.”

“Art should be practically useful, not theoretically perfect.”

“I try to say things with my art that others can’t say.”

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative, and ambitious young people.” QUOTES ABOUT CARRYING ON WITH LIFE

“Better out than in.”

“Sometimes you have to play the role of a fool to fool the fool who thinks they are fooling you.”

“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 the quality of most of our culture, but not our art.”

“I can’t believe you morons actually buy this shit.”

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no one told them to.”

“The irony of the information age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.”

“The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso, and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.”

“I mean, a wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

“If you want to say something and have people listen, then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest, you have to live a lie.”

“Make art, not war.”

“The truly great artist is not trying to create a masterpiece but is trying to figure things out.”

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”

“Success is not about your status in society, but about contributing something that can genuinely make it better.”

“Art can comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. But it needs a canvas to start with; somewhere to dream its message and wash its conscience.”