JR Quotes

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.

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.

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

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

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

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

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 best art is on the street.

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.

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

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.

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.

I like art with a visible string to the world.

I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the discovery of subway art inspired me all those years ago.

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

In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.