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

Banksy

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Looks People White
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling
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
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.
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Alive Art Painting
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order People
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Graffiti Trying World
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
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
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
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Art Graffiti 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
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
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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 People Real
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
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.
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Cities Past School
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.
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Cities Past School
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Art Graffiti Smile
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Artist Graffiti Writing
I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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Art Book Mean
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
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.
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Believe Justice Thinking
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
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.
BANKSY

Citiy Name School

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