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

Banksy

You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
BANKSY

Inspirational Race Winning
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BANKSY

Photography Progress Theatre
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
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BANKSY

Feels Knows Nobody
Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
BANKSY

Art Police Today
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Wall
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.
BANKSY

Art Clever Years
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
BANKSY

Apples Pie Sick
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.
BANKSY

Air Cutting Drinking
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

Independent People Use
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Smile
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
BANKSY

Black Justice Purity White
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
BANKSY

Believe Justice Thinking
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti People
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY

Believe Punishment Should
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way

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