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"Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it." |
"Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it." The graffiti artist Banksy is London’s phantom celebrity. Millions have seen his work. But few have seen Banksy. Preferring to be thought of as a "quality vandal," he winces at the idea of being called an artist. "I’d never write that word on my passport, it’s a bit precious sounding" says the skinny 28 year old. "I’m not trying to recast graffiti as an art. The word vandal would suit me fine, a ‘quality vandal’ that is. I’d like to reclaim the word ‘vandal’ the way hip-hop reclaimed ‘nigger’."
