Banksy

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.

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.

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

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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

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

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

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

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

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.

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. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

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

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

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

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

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

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.