Richard Phillips Quotes

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.

Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

I consider myself a multi-platform artist - not just a street artist - but the audience I found through street art has created many of the opportunities I now have on other platforms.

The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

The best art is on the street.

Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

Public art is a unique type of art. It's very different to gallery art because it is something that we pass by every day and it inevitably creates a lot of discussion in a way that gallery art does not.

Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

I personally feel like certain topics and certain issues aren't really being conveyed the right way in music nowadays. It's all very direct and to the point without leaving anything to the imagination.

I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places - I've painted everything from doorways to trains but have always wanted to do something really huge and different.