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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.

Banksy

It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
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
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSY

Art Artist Great Stealing
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
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
BANKSY

Art Need Order
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSY

Graffiti Trying World
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 Model Role Sex
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSY

Graffiti Mind People
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
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
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

Air Cutting Drinking

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