"I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected."

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Source : "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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“I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
“Anyone who thinks itâ€™s funny to name their network "Tomâ€™sHugeEtc" is going to think itâ€™s funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.”
“Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war--until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime”
“We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy and support racial projects aimed at a democratic distibution of power and a just distribution of resources. Or we can claim to not be interested in race, in which case we almost certainly will end up tacitly supporting white supremacy by virtue of our unwillingness to confront it. In a society in which white supremacy has structured every aspect of our world, there can be no claim to neutrality.”
“One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.”
“There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.”

Source : Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.22, Read Books Ltd
“The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.”

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