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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.

Banksy

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

Capitalism Enemy Way
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Climbing Drunk Skills
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
BANKSY

Names Profound Writing
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 Pay Think Thinking
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 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
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
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
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
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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.
BANKSY

Cities Names School
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
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools

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