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Banksy

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
BANKSY

Asking Business World
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Photography Progress Theatre
I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BANKSY

Graffiti Pay Think Thinking
But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Artist Self Views
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Feelings People Police
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Art Clever Years
If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Dirty Models Role Sex
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Black Justice Purity White
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail People
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSY

Night People Sleep
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
BANKSY

Found Males Surveys
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Artist Graffiti Writing
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
BANKSY

Art Lying Wall
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Looks People White
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Graffiti Trying World
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Get Matter Rid

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