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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Banksy

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 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
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Mind People
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
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
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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Looks People White
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
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
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
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning

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