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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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
Painter
Political Activist
Sculptor
Street Artist
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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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 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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.
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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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