banksy Archive

I wasn’t planning on posting anymore banksy stuff, but the two recent interview’s with British magazine’s have been quiet good.

From Time Out London

You are accused by the graffiti community of selling them out? How do you plead?
‘It’s hard to know what “selling out” means – these days you can make more money producing a run of anti-McDonald’s posters than you can make designing actual posters for McDonald’s.

‘I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.’

From The Sunday Times

“I still paint graffiti because I genuinely think the side of a canal is a more interesting place to have art than a museum,” he counters. “And the fact of the matter is, if you exhibit in a gallery you have to compete against Rembrandt, but if you paint down an alley you only have to compete against a dustbin. I guess it’s the art equivalent of hanging around with fat people to make yourself look thin.”