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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.

Banksy

If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Dirty Model Role Sex
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Art Lying People
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 Cabinets Tourists
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
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
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. 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.
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Art Creativity Hate
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
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
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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Art Creativity Mind
If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Citiy Name School
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
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
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
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.
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Cities Past School
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Mind People
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 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
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.
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Art Graffiti People
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should

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