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I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.
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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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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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People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.
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We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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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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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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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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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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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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Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
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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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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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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 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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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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