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There are four basic human needs food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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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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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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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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Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
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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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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 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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You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.
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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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