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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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

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