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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Banksy

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Graffiti Levels War
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Alive Live Painting Today
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Art Graffiti People
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Black Justice Purity White
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
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
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
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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
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.
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Asking Business World
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
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
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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