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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

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

Art Bus Stops Museums
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
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
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

Art Graffiti Littles
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
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Graffiti Levels War
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
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
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
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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.
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Climbing Drunk Skills
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
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 mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two

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