The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
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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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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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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.
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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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I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
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Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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Keep your coins, I want change.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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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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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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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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Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
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