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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Banksy

I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSY

Night People Sleep
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
You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BANKSY

Art Creativity Mind
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSY

Art Encourage Much Used
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
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
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSY

Art House People
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSY

Art Bus Stops Museums
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.
BANKSY

Graffiti Should Have Thinking
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

Cities Names School
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSY

Art Need Order
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.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

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