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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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Artist
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Film Director
Graffiti Artist
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Political Activist
Sculptor
Street Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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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 need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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We don’t need any more heroes we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
Banksy
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.
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There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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There are four basic human needs food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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 used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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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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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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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.
Banksy
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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