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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

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
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
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
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
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.
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Citiy Name School
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
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Details Invisibility People
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Photography Progress Theatre
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
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
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail People
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 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 Pay Think Thinking
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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Artist Graffiti Writing
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Art Lying People
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Mind People
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Come Fuss Leave Walk
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.
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Names Profound Writing
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Art Need Order
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
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Artist Self Views
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Black Justice Purity White
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall

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