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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.

Banksy

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
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
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
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
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
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
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
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought

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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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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