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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.

Banksy

The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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Art Home Taken
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Art Revenge Sex
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Art Lying People
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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Art Cheating Deep Thought
Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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Journey Live Your Life Okay
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Alive Art Painting
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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Apples Pie Sick
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Found Males Surveys
Live as a villain, die as a hero
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Dies Hero Villain
I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Capitalism Enemy Way
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
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Death Life Time
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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Children Mother Parenting
If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Dirty Models Role Sex
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Artist Draws Suffering

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