Banksy Quotes

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

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• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Freedom

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Man
  • You
  • Option

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Yourself

• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
  • Seek
  • Approval

• A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

  

  Laura Wade
  • You
  • Old
  • Skills

• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Financial
  • Discover

• Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Wrong
  • Boring

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Think
  • You
  • Pop

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

  

  Karen Kain
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Fulfillment

• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

  

  O. Henry
  • Family
  • Love
  • Art

• When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Past
  • Trouble
  • Emotions

• What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Best

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

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • You
  • Graffiti