Quotes from Banksy

I pretty much use sketchbooks to note down great ideas of somebody else's I've just had. A good sketchbook means you don't actually need to bother with having a memory yourself. You can get away with a fair bit of substance abuse if you always carry a notepad and a sharp pencil around with you.

Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realize that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet.

A lot of people think that scuttling around stencilling images onto buildings in the middle of the night is the action of a sad, frustrated individual who can't get attention or recognition any other way. They might be right, but I've done gallery shows and, if you've been hitting on people with all sorts of images in all sorts of places, they're a real step backwards, painting the streets means becoming an actual part of the city. It's not a spectator sport.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it and there's no admission fee.

There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.

Conversations don't get any better as you get older.

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

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said, 'That's clever. It's an anagram of art,' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

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.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

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