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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.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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