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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

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
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
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Art Graffiti Smile
I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Art Clever Years
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
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Come Fuss Leave Walk
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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
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
I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Art Clever Years
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 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
Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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Art Graffiti Important
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
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.
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Alive Art Painting
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Mind People
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
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
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Army Country Military
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
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Looks People White
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Shopping Should World
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
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
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
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 Pay Think Thinking
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 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

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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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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