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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

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Art Lying People
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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Photography Progress Theatre
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
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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Art House People
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
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Black Justice Purity White
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
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Art Comfort Should
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
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Asking Business World
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
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage Much Used
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
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
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
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
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Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
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
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
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
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall

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