The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
Your 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.
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.
It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.
I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
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.
Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot.