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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.

Banksy

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
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
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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Internet Looks People
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage People Used
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
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
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Artist Self Views
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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 Pay Think Thinking
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should

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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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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