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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Banksy

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSY

Mind People
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
BANKSY

Army Country Military
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
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSY

Art Morning War
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSY

Graffiti Hipster Speak
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.
BANKSY

Artist Graffiti Writing
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSY

Art Need Order
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
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
BANKSY

Art People Real
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Street Tools
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
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSY

Hero Need Recycling
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Come Fuss Leave Walk
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Wall
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.
BANKSY

Animal Art Free Wild
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
BANKSY

Graffiti Ironic People
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
BANKSY

Inspirational Inspiring Life
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY

Believe Punishment Should
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY

Black Justice Purity White
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

Graffiti Should Have Thinking
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Artist Draws Suffering

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