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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 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 Models Role Sex
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
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
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
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order People
I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Graffiti Should Have Thinking
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Shopping Should World
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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Art Graffiti Street Tools
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
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
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
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

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.

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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.

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