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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
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Film Director
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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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 don’t need any more heroes we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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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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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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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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