Knowing yourself lets you understand others.
It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
Romantic love was invented to manipulate women.
That’s the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn’t like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don’t want to be too dramatic, but it’s hard. It’s necessary to start most work alone.
Someone else’s body is a place for your mind to go.
A sense of duty imprisons you.
Any surplus is immoral.
When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.
On the worst days, I don’t feel like an artist.
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.
Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.
Raise boys and girls the same way.
Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
Expressing anger is necessary.
A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.
Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations.
Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of.
Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.
A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.