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I give away thousands of paintings for free.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist ... I don't do that any more.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

If it doesn't matter, get rid of it.
If you can't get rid of it, it matters.

I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

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

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

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

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

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

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

I could sit in a pub and tell you all the things that are written in this book but you wouldn't fucking listen.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Be positive, patient and persistent.

I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

Keep your coins, I want change.

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

You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.

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

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

If you get tired learn to rest, not to quit.

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.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,

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.

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

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

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

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.

If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they'd be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

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,

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

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.