If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything. . . and then make something.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Everybody draws when they are little.
Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
The dripping. . . well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.
I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didnt know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.