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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

Topics: Details Forget Invisibility Keen Know Life People Private Private Life Public Put Superpower Why

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

~Banksy

Topics: Been Dissent Extra History Revolutions Start Stop Used Wars

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

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Topics: Art Course Important Judged Level Modern Modern Art More Same Same Level Should Than Way

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

~Banksy

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

~Banksy

Topics: Billboards City Live Sell Signs Something Telling Time Trying You

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

~Banksy

Topics: Always Art Art Form Been Form Make Mark Off Scrub Temporary Then You Your

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I give away thousands of paintings for free.

~Banksy

Topics: Away Free Give Paintings Thousands

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

~Banksy

Topics: Capitalism Enemies Even Finds Love Place Way I Love

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

~Banksy

Topics: Big Characters Classic Good Letters Never New New York Painting Started Style Very York

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

~Banksy

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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