52 Quotes by Ben Eine

I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, 'I want to do that... how do you do that?'

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.

Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.

In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.