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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Film Director
Graffiti Artist
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Political Activist
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Street Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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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My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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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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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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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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.
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