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“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”

“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.”

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”

“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.”

“There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.”

“You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.”

“People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.”

“Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.”

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.”

“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.”

“It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.”

“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.”

“Some people become cops 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.”

“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.”

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”