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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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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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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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 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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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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We don’t need any more heroes we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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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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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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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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