See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality..

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people..

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it..

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard a….

Art is for everybody..

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint..

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for t….

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up..

When I die there is nobody to take my place..

I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a ….

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms an….

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature..

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It cel….

There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile..

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your ….

Nothing is important... so everything is important..

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the….

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, inven….

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic..

Children know something that most people have forgotten..

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody..