There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
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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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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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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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My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
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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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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
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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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Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
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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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At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.
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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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