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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

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
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People Piece Wall
Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Air Cutting Drinking
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
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
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 Model Role Sex
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Graffiti Trying 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
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
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
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
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
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 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
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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Art Lying Wall
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World

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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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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