I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.
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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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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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If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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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 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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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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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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But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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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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Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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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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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
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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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Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
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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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When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.
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