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

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.

I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.