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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Artist
Artivist
Film Director
Graffiti Artist
Painter
Political Activist
Sculptor
Street Artist
Writer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
Violence
Anything
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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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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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 are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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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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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 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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You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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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?
Banksy
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
Banksy
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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This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.
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