Banksy

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"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."

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

"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."

"Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that."

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