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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

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Alive Live Painting Today
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Get Matter Rid
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
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
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
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
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
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage Much Used
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 Dissent Guilty House Plead
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.
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Night People Sleep
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 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.
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Climbing Drunk Skills
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Art Lying Wall
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
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
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Artist Draws Suffering
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Christmas Lying Years
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Art Lying 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
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.
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Asking Business World

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