Speak Softly, But Carry A Big Can

If You Don't Own A Train Company Then You Go And Paint On One Instead... It All Comes From That Thing At School When You Had To Have Name Tags In The Back Of Something... That Makes It Belong To You. You Can Own Half The City By Scribbling Your Name Over It.

I Used To Encourage Everyone I Knew To Make Art; I Don't Do That So Much Anymore.

The Time Of Getting Fame For Your Name On Its Own Is Over. Artwork That Is Only About Wanting To Be Famous Will Never Make You Famous. Any Fame Is A By-product Of Making Something That Means Something. You Don't Go To A Restaurant And Order A Meal Because You Want To Have A Sh*t.

It's Impossible To Predict Which Paintings Will Last And Which Won't. In New Orleans I Painted On A Dilapidated Shop In A Street Littered With Abandoned Cars And Rotting Mattresses, Then Two Hours Later The Piece Was Gone. It Turned Out I'd Picked The Side Of A Crack House And The Proprietor Didn't Like The Attention.

I Need Someone To Protect Me From All The Measures They Take In Order To Protect Me.