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

Banksy

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
BANKSY

Looks People White
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
BANKSY

Art Artist Great Stealing
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

Climbing Drunk Skills
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
BANKSY

Art Morning 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.
BANKSY

Army Country Military
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Come Fuss Leave Walk
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
BANKSY

Hero Need Recycling
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
BANKSY

Giving Rocks Space
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!
BANKSY

Look Over Paint World
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
BANKSY

Children Mother Parenting
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BANKSY

Dresses People Thinking
It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
BANKSY

Feelings People Police
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSY

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