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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.

Banksy

It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Car New Orleans Two
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
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Castles Needs Sky
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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Art Artist Great Stealing
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Graffiti Hipster Speak
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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Believe Punishment Should
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
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
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Art Order 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
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Fighter Fighting War
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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Army Country Military
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Art Bus Stops Museums
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
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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Art Need Order
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
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Meaningless Original Quote Thought

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