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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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Street Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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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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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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The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.
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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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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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