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Banksy

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
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
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Giving Rocks Space
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
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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Details Invisibility People
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Come Fuss Leave Walk
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Art House People
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
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Alive Art Painting

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