Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
There’s obviously nothing wrong with selling your art – only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it’s confusing to know how far you should take it.
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
If at first you don’t succeed, Call an airstrike.
The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I’m not sure how reliable he is.
If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it.
There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they’re an exception to the rules.
You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say “I want to be famous.” You ask them for what reason and they don’t know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.
Remember – it’s always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Be positive, patient and persistent.
The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don’t even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It’s not surprising a lot of people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to never committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we’re told, this is the only way we can be sure.
This revolution is for display purposes only.
Sometimes the right thing to do... is the wrong thing.