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The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.

— Charles Thomson

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On the 2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat and back into a shed.

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Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

It has become an ongoing national joke.

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The result of walking round Tate Modern is not an experience of the marvel of creative profundity which gives meaning to life, but more akin to the detritus of a dryly analytical bureaucrat reverting to an infantile stage during an extended breakdown.

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