I identify with the 99 per cent.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.