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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
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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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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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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.
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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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