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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

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
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
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
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
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
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Art Guilty House
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
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Art House People
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
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 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.
BANKSY

Art Book Mean
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 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

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