Robert Del Naja Quotes

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

When I started working at Pictures On Walls, I'd been hanging out with Banksy for a few years travelling around the world together painting stuff, and then we moved into a new office and wanted to do screenprinting.

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.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

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.

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.

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

I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.

Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.

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.

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.