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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.
Banksy
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Banksy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 28
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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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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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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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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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There are four basic human needs food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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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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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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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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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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I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
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