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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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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Street Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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 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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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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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 doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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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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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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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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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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