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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.

Banksy

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
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Art People Real
If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Cities Names School
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
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.
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Army Country Military
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
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 used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage People Used
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Details Invisibility People
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Graffiti Ironic People
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.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Art Creativity Hate

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