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Banksy

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
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Artist Draws Suffering
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Shopping Should World
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
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
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
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
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
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
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
I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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Art Book Mean
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order People

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