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

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In….

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

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 ….

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your ….

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….

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that som….

Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and h….

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossi….

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..

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

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….

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 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….

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

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was th….

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life.

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

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

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France..

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