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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

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
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Art Lying Wall
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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
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
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
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
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Giving Rocks Space
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War
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
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 Models Role Sex
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
My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Believe Cartoon Ties
But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Artist Self Views
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
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
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
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Art Creativity Hate
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
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 Cabinets Tourists

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