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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Banksy

Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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Art Police Today
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
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Art Need Order
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Authority People 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
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
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
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 love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
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
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
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail 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
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

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