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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.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
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
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
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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Alive Art Painting
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Get Matter Rid
You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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Art Creativity Mind
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.
BANKSY

Cities Past School
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

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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