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- Nov 07, 2020
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
- California
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
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- Nov 07, 2020