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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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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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Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw. I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
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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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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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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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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 originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
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