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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.

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 bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Journey Live Your Life Okay
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
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order People
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Graffiti Ironic People
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Art Guilty House
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Graffiti Levels War
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
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
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
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 Cabinets Tourists

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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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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