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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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... →
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... →
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... →
I'm really into California art from the '60s.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities -... →
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
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.
I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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.
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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