“T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.”

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

But there’s no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it’s hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.

It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that

It doesn’t take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.