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

Banksy

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.
BANKSY

Asking Business World
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSY

Get Matter Rid
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY

Art Cheating Deep Thought
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY

Believe Punishment Should
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.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years
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’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.
BANKSY

Alive Art Painting
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

Independent People Use
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSY

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

Care Hate People
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
Keep your coins, I want change.
BANKSY

Coin Keep Want
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSY

Look Over Paint World

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