I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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Keep your coins, I want change.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
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Live as a villain, die as a hero
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said ‘that’s clever it’s an anagram of art’ and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
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