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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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Bristol
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Robert Banks
Robin Banks
Robin Gunningham
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long 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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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
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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 don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
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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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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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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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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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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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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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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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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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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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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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