"I'm not a very good artist. I'm not very good at painting."

"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."

"I think it's important to be anonymous. It allows me to do what I want to do."

"I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but everyone has to say that these days, don't they?"

"The people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff."