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

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
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
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
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 Graffiti Littles
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage Much Used
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Graffiti Mind 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
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
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
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Black Justice Purity White
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
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
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

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