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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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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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Thing
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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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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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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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