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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Banksy

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
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
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
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
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.
BANKSY

Air Cutting Drinking
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Looks People White
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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Art Cabinets Tourists
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling
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
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
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
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order People

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