Peter M. Brant quotes

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. (Peter M. Brant)

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

Peter M. Brant

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Peter M. Brant

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Peter M. Brant

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Peter M. Brant

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Peter M. Brant

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Peter M. Brant

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

Peter M. Brant

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

Peter M. Brant

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Peter M. Brant