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It has become an ongoing national joke.

— Charles Thomson

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On the Turner Prize. Mostly quoted as "an ongoing national joke" or a "national joke."

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Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

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

Doodles done by a lobotomised computer.

He disrupted things and that’s fine, but now things have been shaken up so much that it’s been shaken up into little bits and the little bits have been shaken up into even smaller bits. We are saying let’s put it all back together.

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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