I'd Been Painting Rats For Three Years

If You Have A Statue In The City Centre You Could Go Past It Every Day On Your Way To School And Never Even Notice It, Right. But As Soon As Someone Puts A Traffic Cone On Its Head, You've Made Your Own Sculpture.

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.

I Figure There Are Enough Self-opinionated Assholes Trying To Get Their Ugly Little Faces In Front Of You As It Is. You Ask A Lot Of Kids Today What They Want To Be When They Grow Up, And They Say, 'i Want To Be Famous.' You Ask Them, 'for What Reason?' And They Don't Know Or Care. I Think Andy Warhol Got It Wrong - In The Future, So Many People Are Going To Become Famous That One Day Everybody Will End Up Being Anonymous For 15 Minutes.

Some People Represent Authority Without Ever Possessing Any Of Their Own.

The People Who Run Our Cities Dont Understand Graffiti Because They Think Nothing Has The Right To Exist Unless It Makes A Profit... The People Who Truly Deface Our Neighborhoods Are The Companies That Scrawl Giant Slogans Across Buildings And Buses Trying To Make Us Feel Inadequate Unless We Buy Their Stuff.... Any Advertisement In Public Space That Gives You No Choice Whether You See It Or Not Is Yours, It Belongs To You ,, Its Yours To Take, Rearrange And Re Use.asking For Permission Is Like Asking To Keep A Rock Someone Just Threw At Your Head.