Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

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

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.