Ben Eine

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. Ben Eine

Always Everything love

My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh. Ben Eine

Laugh Never People

Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it. Ben Eine

Boring Find Negative

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

Painting quotations on walls

Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing. Ben Eine

Art quotations on walls Street

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

Artist Good Paranoid

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise. Ben Eine

Just Noise the world

Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them. Ben Eine

America Daughter Flying

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. Ben Eine

Attitude Brave Chance