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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

Banksy

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSY

Look Over Paint World
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSY

Graffiti Hipster Speak
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY

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

Art Bus Stops Museums
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.
BANKSY

Cities Names School
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.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two
Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Important
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
BANKSY

Believe Cartoon Ties
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSY

Hero Need Recycling
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Smile
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSY

Children Mother Parenting
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
BANKSY

Art Revenge Sex
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSY

Get Matter Rid
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
BANKSY

Air Cutting Drinking
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSY

Anonymous Everybody Future Minute

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

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