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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.

Banksy

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
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Art Graffiti People
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
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’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
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
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
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Asking Business World
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Look Over Paint World
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
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
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
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
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
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
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
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
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use

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