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Banksy

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Art Graffiti 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
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
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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 People Real
It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Car New Orleans Two
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
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 wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Internet Looks 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
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Asking Business World

Keep your coins, I want change.

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