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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

Banksy

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY

Art Cheating Deep Thought
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
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
BANKSY

Art People Real
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
I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
BANKSY

Graffiti Pay Think Thinking
Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSY

Graffiti Knows Piece Wall
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Come Fuss Leave Walk
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
BANKSY

Death Life Time
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
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSY

Artist Draws Suffering
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.
BANKSY

Art Lying Wall
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
BANKSY

Graffiti Mind People
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
BANKSY

Graffiti Hipster Speak
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
BANKSY

Cities Past School
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
BANKSY

Art Graffiti Littles
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
BANKSY

Fighter Fighting War

If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

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