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

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

Faith is the switch that turns the impossible into possible.

The question “who am I” is the first question that every person should ask himself

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Everything has a cause.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.