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Banksy

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
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Art Lying Wall
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
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
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
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
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Shopping Should World
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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
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 it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Get Matter Rid
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 just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Look Over Paint World
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative People

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was

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