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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 don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSY

Animal Art Free Wild
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
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSY

Hero Need Recycling
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.
BANKSY

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

Shopping Should World
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
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.
BANKSY

Air Cutting Drinking
Keep your coins, I want change.
BANKSY

Coin Keep Want
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSY

Interesting Make Place World
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSY

Artist Draws Suffering
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSY

Artist Needs Successful
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.
BANKSY

Art Dissent Guilty House Plead
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSY

Inspirational Race Winning
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

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