An artist should be taking risks. That’s the whole idea of being an artist.
The city’s the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it – through this we can really change the world.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.
Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.
When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.
Like my daddy always said, where there’s a way, there’s a will.
I’m waiting for the king to arrive.
Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.
Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!
A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.
Don’t forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.
When I was little, I didn’t really travel – from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner’s eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there’s the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.
The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.