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

Banksy

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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 like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Believe Justice Thinking
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Art Home Taken
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Look Over Paint World
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
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
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.
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Cities Past School
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
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
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
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Graffiti Mind People
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
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
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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 Creativity Hate
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting

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