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Banksy

I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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Night People Sleep
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Journey Live Your Life Okay
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Dresses People Thinking
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
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
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.
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Cities Past School
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
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Believe Justice Thinking
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Art Graffiti Littles
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War

You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.

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