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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.

Banksy

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSY

Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
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 Model Role Sex
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
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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.
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Art Lying Wall
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
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
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Alive Live Painting Today
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

Cities Past School
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.
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Asking Business World
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Dresses People Thinking
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSY

Feelings People Police

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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