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

Banksy

We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Shopping Should World
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Art House People
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Giving Rocks Space
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 Graffiti Littles
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
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.
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Graffiti Should Have Thinking
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
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

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