19 Ben Eine Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ben Eine

English Artist

Born: Aug 23, 1970

About Art People Work World You

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. Ben Eine

For me, it's mostly about having stuff on the street. You're walking down the street, you do it every day, and suddenly there's something that wasn't there yesterday: something bright and cheerful and different. It might stay there for a year; maybe it will disappear. Ben Eine

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You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones. Ben Eine

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I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running. Ben Eine

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Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons. Ben Eine

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A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way. Ben Eine

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

Art Gone Out Studied Still Done

I'm a luxury brand. Ben Eine

Luxury Brand

I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, ‘I want to do that… how do you do that?' Ben Eine

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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. Ben Eine

I'm always travelling and spend a lot of time in airports so I know what it feels like to get a personal welcome home. I wish I got more of them. Ben Eine

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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. Ben Eine

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. Ben Eine

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