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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

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
BANKSY

Feels Knows Nobody
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
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 people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
BANKSY

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

Inspirational Race Winning
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 tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
BANKSY

Art Dissent Guilty House Plead
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
BANKSY

Alive Live Painting Today
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
BANKSY

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

Graffiti Mind People
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
BANKSY

Night People Sleep
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
BANKSY

Art Holy Grail People
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
BANKSY

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

Mind People
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
BANKSY

Art Comfort Should
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
BANKSY

Art Revenge Sex

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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