Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but at a certain point they kick everybody out, and say: "Come, go home. Yeah, I had a great time too." And then you're alone again, and then you're freshly inspired and energized.

Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.

In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.