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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.

Banksy

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.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSY

Art Need Order
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BANKSY

Feels Knows Nobody
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
BANKSY

Alive Art Painting
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.
BANKSY

Climbing Drunk Skills
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
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
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BANKSY

Graffiti Levels War
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

Citiy Name School
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSY

Artist Draws Suffering
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.
BANKSY

Asking Business World
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.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
BANKSY

Meaningless Original Quote Thought
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.
BANKSY

Art Creativity Hate
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

Independent People Use
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
BANKSY

Art Revenge Sex

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.

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