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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Banksy

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
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
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.
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Art Graffiti Smile
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
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
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
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti Negative 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
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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Away Come Fuss Quietly Walk
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
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
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Look Over Paint World
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 Dissent Guilty House Plead
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.
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Art Clever Years
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
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Art People Real

At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

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