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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

If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
BANKSY

Cities Names School
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
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

Independent People Use
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
BANKSY

Found Males Surveys
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
BANKSY

Art People Real
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSY

Graffiti Hipster Speak
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSY

Animal Art Free Wild
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BANKSY

Anything Believe Violence
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Street Tools
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BANKSY

Graffiti Levels War
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
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY

Black Justice Purity White
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
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSY

Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY

Believe Punishment Should

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