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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.

Banksy

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
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
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
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
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
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
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 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
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
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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Cities Names School
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
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
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Graffiti Trying World

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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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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