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.
BanksyIt doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BanksyIf Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today theyโd be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BanksyIt's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.
Banksy