The One Thing You Can Rely On

I'd Been Painting Rats For Three Years Before Someone Said 'that's Clever It's An Anagram Of Art' And I Had To Pretend I'd Known That All Along.

You Live In The City And All The Time There Are Signs Telling You What To Do And Billboards Trying To Sell You Something.

Art Is Not Like Other Culture Because Its Success Is Not Made By Its Audience. The Public Fill Concert Halls And Cinemas Every Day, We Read Novels By The Millions, And Buy Records By The Billions. 'we The People' Affect The Making And Quality Of Most Of Our Culture, But Not Our Art.

Nothing Is Black And White, And There Is No Purity And There Is No Such Thing Has Justice.

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.