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

Banksy

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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Art Graffiti Important
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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Animal Art Free Wild
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Art Guilty House
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
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
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Details Invisibility People
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
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
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Artist Graffiti Writing
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
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
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Art House People
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
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
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Art Need Order
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
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
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 art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Art Home Taken
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
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Dresses People Thinking
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Black Justice Purity White

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