British painter Banksy, one of the world's foremost street artists

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Quotable lines from the British artist known as Banksy:

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. — from The Independent[70] ”

“ 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. ”

“ People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. "