:: BANKSY

Banksy's artworks are often-satirical pieces of art that encompass topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stencilling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world.
It's not really work that influences my own, but still...it's fancinating!!!

He works with different media, uses a wide variety of different stick to work on, i love it how you dont know his identity, he's the mystery artist.

Iv only ever seen one piece of his work as it actually is, whilst I was visiting London. But im sure if i had spent more time there and more time wondering the streets I would have come across loads more.

Asked about his technique, Banksy said "I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key"



If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.
—Banksy, in The Independent
He does all this and he stays anonymous. I think that's great. These days everyone is trying to be famous. But he has anonymity.
—Brad Pitt, in The Independent
Banksy has never let the world know his real name – and he has never even posed for a photograph. Funny kind of celebrity.
—Paul Vallely, The Independent
...he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.
—Charlie Brooker, The Guardian