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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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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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You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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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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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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There are four basic human needs food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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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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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If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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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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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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