“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was”

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

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

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don’t need an education to understand it, and there’s no admission fee.

A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

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

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

I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.