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

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Air Cutting Drinking
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage Much Used
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Art Graffiti People
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
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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Animal Art Free Wild
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Air Cutting Drinking
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
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

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