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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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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
In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
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Anonymous Everybody Future Minute
Keep your coins, I want change.
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Coin Keep Want
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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Art Encourage Much Used
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Dresses People Thinking
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Internet Looks People
I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
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Graffiti Pay Think Thinking
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Names Profound Writing
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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Art Graffiti Littles
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
Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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Feels Knows Nobody
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Asking Business World
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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Feelings People Police
It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Car New Orleans Two
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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Annoying Idiot Two
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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Art Holy Grail People

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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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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