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You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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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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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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There are four basic human needs food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.
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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.
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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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