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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Artivist
Film Director
Graffiti Artist
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Political Activist
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Street Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
Banging
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Almost
Nothing
Graffiti
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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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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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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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 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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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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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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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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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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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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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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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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There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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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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