Ben Eine Quotes:- Ben Eine (born 23 August 1970) is an English artist based in London. Eine became known for his alphabet lettering on shop shutters. Some of these letters have been mapped for ease of finding. He has also taken his lettering to the streets of Paris, Stockholm, Hastings, and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Inspirational Ben Eine Quotes
“Anyone can lose their home and find their life is turned upside down.”
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“I did long-term reinsurance claims. Asbestos, health hazards, pollution. It was very boring. But I’ve got quite a mathematical brain and it paid well.”
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“I don’t want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.”
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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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“My work isn’t overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don’t have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.”
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“I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn’t recognize it was a train. I thought, ‘I want to do that… how do you do that?'”
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“Whenever I get a job that’s somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.”
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“When I got into graffiti, it was the most exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.”
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“I don’t get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.”
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“Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.”
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“I started off tagging stuff – I’m not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.”
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40+ Famous Quotes by Ben Eine
“A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.”
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“I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.”
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“An airplane cabin isn’t the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I’m all for doing things differently.”
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“I’m always traveling 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.”
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“The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It’s just part of urban noise.”
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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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“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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“My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.”
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“It’s hard to live just by selling paintings.”
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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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“You can’t be a punk all your life.”
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“The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn’t necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.”
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“I’m a luxury brand.”
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30+ Powerful Quotes by Ben Eine
“The Prime Minister gave President Obama one of my artworks and suddenly my name was all over the news.”
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“It makes me really proud to be able to use my art to spread positive messages around the world.”
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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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“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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“Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.”
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“One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you’re not taught what you can’t do.”
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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 got a message from Downing Street that my picture’s hanging in the White House. Which is weird.”
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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.”
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“In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.”
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“I’m not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I’ve been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.”
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Top 10 Powerful Quotes on Ben Eine
“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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“Spray painting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colorful. I think you’d have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.”
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“Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don’t care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.”
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“When I can, I enjoy working with local people to involve everyone in the community in changing their environment.”
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“I’m a long way from being a Damien Hirst.”
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“All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think of London. There’s some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.”
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“I have a lot of respect for what people are doing here in Manchester, to promote the city’s creativity and Aviva Investors Manchester Art Fair has played a big role in that. I’m glad to bring my work to the North West.”
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“I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places – I’ve painted everything from doorways to trains but have always wanted to do something really huge and different.”
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“I respect Virgin Atlantic’s brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first-ever Gallery in the Air.”
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