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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

Banksy

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

Art Police Today
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSY

Inspirational Race Winning
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti People
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.
BANKSY

Looks People White
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Come Fuss Leave Walk
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.
BANKSY

Inspiring Movie World
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
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSY

Art Artist Great Stealing
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSY

Shopping Should World
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
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.
BANKSY

Cities Past School
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSY

Artist Draws Suffering
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
BANKSY

Art Revenge Sex

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