Top 11 Quotes by Banksy

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

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

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

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.

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.

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

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

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.