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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.

Banksy

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Come Fuss Leave Walk
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Art Graffiti People
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
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
BANKSY

Internet Looks People
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.
BANKSY

Army Country Military
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSY

Photography Progress Theatre
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
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.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Smile
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
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
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
BANKSY

Journey Live Your Life Okay
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
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
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
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 it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
BANKSY

Get Matter Rid
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
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.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two
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
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
BANKSY

Art Order 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

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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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