Dissent pays the rent. - Banksy

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"When the paintings suddenly started going for, like, really big money it definitely weirded me out, and I kind of went away to the middle of nowhere and I stopped making any more paintings. But the whole time the auction houses were just selling paintings that I’d done years before and sold for not much money. Or paintings that I traded for a haircut or, you know, an ounce of weed and they were going for like 50 grand." (lightly edited)

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