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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.

Banksy

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
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
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 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
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
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage People Used
If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Cities Names School
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 don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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Anything Believe Violence
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
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Art Graffiti People
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.

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