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If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
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
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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 you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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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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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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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.
Banksy
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
Banksy
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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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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