T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
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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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I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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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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I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
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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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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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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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