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

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

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

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.

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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….