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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

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Believe Justice Thinking
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
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
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
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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.
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Graffiti Should Have Thinking
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
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.
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Looks People White
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.
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Army Country Military

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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