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.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

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

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.

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

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.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.