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Banksy

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 Should Have Thinking
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
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
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
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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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Art Book Mean
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
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
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

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