Ben Eine Quotes

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Ben Eine

Profession : Artist

Birth : August 23, 1970

I have never voted in any election - I usually have more important things to do, especially since I've had kids.

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When I started working at Pictures On Walls, I'd been hanging out with Banksy for a few years travelling around the world together painting stuff, and then we moved into a new office and wanted to do screenprinting.

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I'm a long way from being a Damien Hirst.

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David Cameron has given one of my paintings to President Obama. It's quite mad, really. But it's OK. It's not the kind of recognition I seek or get every day, but Cameron seems quite a positive kind of guy and Obama's a dude. I would probably have had issues if it had been for Bush.

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Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

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I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

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Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.

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When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I got bored of the self-imposed rules.

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I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the discovery of subway art inspired me all those years ago.

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My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

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I'm a bit too old for anarchy. If I was younger I might be more political but I'm married with kids and I've got a mortgage.

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