If Commercialization Is Putting My

The Best Reason To Paint Is That There Is No Reason To Paint... I'd Like To Pretend That I've Never Seen Anything, Never Read Anything, Never Heard Anything... And Then Make Something... Every Time I Make Something I Think About The People Who Are Going To See It And Every Time I See Something, I Think About The Person Who Made It... Nothing Is Important... So Everything Is Important.

If Commercialization Is Putting My Art On A Shirt So That A Kid Who Can't Afford A $30,000 Painting Can Buy One, Then I'm All For It.

You Have To Be Objective About Money To Use It Fairly. It Doesn't Make You Any Better Or Any More Useful Than Any Other Person. Even If You Use Your Money To Help People That Doesn't.

I Don't Think Art Is Propaganda; It Should Be Something That Liberates The Soul, Provokes The Imagination And Encourages People To Go Further. It Celebrates Humanity Instead Of Manipulating It.

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.