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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

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
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Art Need Order
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.
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Art Book Mean
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
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
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Art Home Taken
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Graffiti Ironic 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
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
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
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
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.
BANKSY

Looks People White
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
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.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
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.
BANKSY

Asking Business World
My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
BANKSY

Believe Cartoon Ties
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
BANKSY

Inspiring Movie World
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
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.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSY

Feelings People Police
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSY

Castles Needs Sky

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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