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The Greatest Crimes In The World Are Not Committed By People Breaking The Rules But By People Following The Rules. It's People Who Follow Orders That Drop Bombs And Massacre Villages.

Art Should Comfort The Disturbed And Disturb The Comfortable.

It's Impossible To Predict Which Paintings Will Last And Which Won't. In New Orleans I Painted On A Dilapidated Shop In A Street Littered With Abandoned Cars And Rotting Mattresses, Then Two Hours Later The Piece Was Gone. It Turned Out I'd Picked The Side Of A Crack House And The Proprietor Didn't Like The Attention.

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.

Some People Criticize Me For Using Sources That Are A Bit Low Brow (this Quote Is From 'gladiator') But You Know What? 'i'm Just Going To Use That Hostility To Make Me Stronger, Not Weaker' As Kelly Rowland Said On The X Factor.