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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

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.
BANKSY

Art Book Mean
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
BANKSY

Come Fuss Leave Walk
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BANKSY

Capitalism Enemy Way
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
BANKSY

Believe Punishment Should
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
BANKSY

Art Cheating Deep Thought
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 holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
BANKSY

Authority People Piece Wall
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
BANKSY

Care Hate People
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
BANKSY

Details Invisibility People
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
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
BANKSY

Dresses People Thinking
You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky
BANKSY

Castles Needs Sky
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
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.
BANKSY

Car New Orleans Two

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.

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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.

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