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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.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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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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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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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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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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