Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
Banksy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
Activist Shareholder
Artist
Artivist
Film Director
Graffiti Artist
Painter
Political Activist
Sculptor
Street Artist
Writer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
Good
Cheating
Never
Becoming
Art
Else
Become
Anything
Need
Needs
Graffiti
More quotes by Banksy
This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.
Banksy
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
Banksy
If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
Banksy
You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
Banksy
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
Banksy
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.
Banksy
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
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.
Banksy
Live as a villain, die as a hero
Banksy
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.
Banksy
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
Banksy
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
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
People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
Banksy
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
Banksy
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
Banksy
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.
Banksy
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
Banksy
The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.
Banksy
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
