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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.

Banksy

I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
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.
BANKSY

Looks People White
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSY

Graffiti Hipster Speak
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSY

Animal Art Free Wild
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
BANKSY

Art Bus Stops Museums
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
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
At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
BANKSY

Christmas Lying Years
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Art House People
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
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Graffiti Levels War
You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
BANKSY

Art Creativity Mind
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
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Graffiti Ironic People
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Smile
It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today

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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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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