"The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses."
Keith Haring
Basquiat
"I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect
Spiderman."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Banksy
"Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that."
Banksy
Picasso
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."