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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
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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