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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.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Film Director
Graffiti Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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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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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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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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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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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that
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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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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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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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If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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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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