I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.
The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.
I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.
