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Banksy

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Alive Live Painting Today
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Believe Cartoon Ties
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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Art Cabinets Tourists
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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Army Country Military
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
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 know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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Art Book Mean
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
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
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Art Graffiti Wall
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums

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

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