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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

Banksy

People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSY

Care Hate People
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSY

Apples Pie Sick
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.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
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.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti People
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
BANKSY

Art Lying People
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.
BANKSY

Art Creativity Hate
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

Climbing Drunk Skills
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSY

Art Comfort Should
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSY

Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSY

Art Artist Great Stealing
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSY

Hero Need Recycling
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.
BANKSY

Graffiti Pay Think Thinking
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
BANKSY

Death Life Time
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSY

Art Encourage Much Used
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way

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