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We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

Banksy

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail People
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Look Over Paint World
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Car New Orleans Two
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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Citiy Name School
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
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
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
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
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Details Invisibility People
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
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Air Cutting Drinking
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
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.
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Graffiti Should Have Thinking

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