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

Banksy

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
BANKSY

Art House People
I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSY

Art Morning War
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSY

Castles Needs Sky
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.
BANKSY

Climbing Drunk Skills
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.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti People
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSY

Art Encourage Much Used
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSY

Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSY

Graffiti Mind People
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
BANKSY

Cities Past School
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Street Tools
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

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

Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
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.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSY

Children Mother Parenting

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