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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

Banksy

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
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
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Christmas Lying Years
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
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
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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Night People Sleep
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Art Lying Wall

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