Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it..

We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it wa….

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are ….

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intu….

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's ….

The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, ….

If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated….

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communic….

There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items….

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us..

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimul….

We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans….

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone..

Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square,….

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing pos….

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy..

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it.….

Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but ….

What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think th….

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly..

Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't think they saw it, they did. Even if it was….