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Banksy

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
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
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
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Photography Progress Theatre
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Dresses People Thinking
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Journey Live Your Life Okay
If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Dirty Models Role Sex
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Art Creativity Hate
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage People Used
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Hero Need Recycling

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