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Banksy

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Graffiti Levels War
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
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Art Need Order
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage People Used
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
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
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Graffiti Trying World
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
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
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Art Dissent Guilty House Plead
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Art Home Taken

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