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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Banksy

If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Climbing Drunk Skills
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Come Fuss Leave Walk
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
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Art Graffiti Wall
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail People
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Dresses People Thinking
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
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
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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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Cities Names School
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Feelings People Police
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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 People Real
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
Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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Art Graffiti Important
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
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
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

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