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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Banksy

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 Should Have Thinking
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Artist Needs Successful
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
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Art Cabinets Tourists
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Independent People Use
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
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Inspirational Race Winning
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Art Morning War
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
BANKSY

Animal Art Free Wild
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
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.
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Art Clever Years
People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Care Hate People
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Interesting Make Place World
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.
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Car New Orleans Two
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Inspiring Movie World
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Graffiti Mind People

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