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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.

Banksy

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

Capitalism Enemy Way
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Street Tools
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSY

Hero Need Recycling
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.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years
If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
BANKSY

Climbing Drunk Skills
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
BANKSY

Graffiti Trying World
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
BANKSY

Art Cabinets Tourists
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
BANKSY

Inspirational Inspiring Life
I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
BANKSY

Anything Believe Violence
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.
BANKSY

Alive Art Painting
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSY

Art Artist Great Stealing
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.
BANKSY

Details Invisibility People
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
BANKSY

Air Cutting Drinking
If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Dirty Models Role Sex
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall

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