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Banksy

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Art Graffiti People
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Art Lying People
I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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Art Clever Years
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Art Dissent Guilty House Plead
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
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
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Night People Sleep
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 don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Details Invisibility People

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