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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Banksy

A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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Art Graffiti Wall
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
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
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Believe Cartoon Ties
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
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.
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Climbing Drunk Skills
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Feelings People Police
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Cities Past School
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
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
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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Cities Past School
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Internet Looks People
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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Giving Rocks Space
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
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 Guilty House
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.
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Art Creativity Mind
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
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
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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Artist Graffiti Writing
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.
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Alive Art Painting
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
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Artist Draws Suffering

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