I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and…

- Alec Monopoly

I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graff…

- Alec Monopoly

The life I live is my art work.

- Alec Monopoly

I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it ta…

- Alec Monopoly

When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'…

- Alec Monopoly

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high…

- Alec Monopoly

I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art and stuff like that, so I wasn't doing any graffiti…

- Alec Monopoly

Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a thin detail, it's not that thin i…

- Alec Monopoly

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

- Alec Monopoly