The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.
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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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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
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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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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
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