Wall and Piece

Quotes

1. "I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me."

2. 

   "I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today."

3. 

   "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."

4. 

   "A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to."

5. 

   "If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town..."

6. 

   "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."

7. 

   "Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie."

8. 

   "We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling."

9. 

   "We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves."

10. 

    "People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine."

11. 

    "Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas everyday, 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."

12. 

    "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."

13. 

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

14. 

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

15. 

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

16. 

    "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." (p. 51)

17. 

    "'There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.' — Metropolitan Police Spokesperson"

18. 

    "T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress."

19. 

    "Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

20. 

    "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..."

21. 

    "Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else."

22. 

    "Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access."

23. 

    "Conversations don't get any better as you get older."

24. 

    "I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more."

25. 

    "Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes."

26. 

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

27. 

    "After sticking up the picture I took five minutes to watch what happened next. A sea of people walked up, stared and left looking confused and slightly cheated. I felt like a true modern artist."

That’s all the quotes.

27 quotes in the collection · come back when we add more