
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist….. I don’t do that any more.
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.
We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.
Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.
Some people become cocks because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town.
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. ‘We the people’ affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.
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…
I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said “that’s a clever anagram of art” and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.
People who enjoy waving flags don’t deserve to have one.
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
‘I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I’d had an epiphany that night [about using stencils] and she told me to stop taking that drug ‘cos it’s bad for your heart.’
I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today.
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that’s only if it’s done properly.
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
Conversations don’t get any better as you get older.
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