If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
You’re advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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.
If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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.
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being ‘good at drawing’ doesn’t sound like Banksy to me.
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don’t actually have to behave like one.
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
People who enjoy waving flags don’t deserve to have one.
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.