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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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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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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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There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. 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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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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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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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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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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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