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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Banksy

We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
BANKSY

Shopping Should World
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
BANKSY

Art Encourage Much Used
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
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
BANKSY

Artist Needs Successful
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Street Tools
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
BANKSY

Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
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
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BANKSY

Alive Live Painting Today
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSY

Feelings People Police
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSY

Look Over Paint World
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY

Black Justice Purity White
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.
BANKSY

Graffiti Ironic People
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Wall
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

Believe Justice Thinking
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People

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