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I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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Robert Banks
Robin Banks
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Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw. I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
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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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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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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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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 it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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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 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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You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
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