ART
Art is a weapon and the weapons can change the world.
Good art is irreverent, excessive, controversial, incorrect, irritating, ironic, bad behaving, playful and beautiful or ugly.
Great artists don’t create – they destroy.
Painting is neither a dinner party nor a bed of roses. Painting is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Turbo Realism is an artistic practice of centrifugal compression powered by the high speed capitalism.
In a perfect world there would be no need for art.
Protest in art is like alcohol-free beer in Saudi Arabia.
RIIKO SAKKINEN
I always disagree. I am always wrong.
I'm a perpetual dissident.
I like things I don’t understand.
The hypermarket is my studio.
I paint what you love to hate and what you hate to love.
I make art out of everyday life, including special offers and car bombs, exotic cocktails and Molotov cocktails, cleaning the house and ethnic cleansing, fast food and Blitzkrieg.
Why do I draw foodstuff? I’ve heard that the biggest businesses in the world are weapons, prostitution and drugs but I don’t believe it. I’m sure that the food sells more, everybody buys it.
I do drawings, but cannot draw. I do paintings, but cannot paint. I do other things, too, but cannot do that either. It is a tragedy, but tragedies are appreciated in Arts.
You see my problem is this - I'm dreaming away, wishing that revolutionary heroes, they really exist. Oops! I did it again.
I used to be a total artist but now I'm more a human being.
POLITICS
Democracy is the brand – Capitalism is the product.
I want socialism where everybody can drive a BMW.
We need more red superheroes.
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of economy is of no use to a man who has no money.
Dear oppressed people, I'd love to give you freedom but I have only mine.
Democracy and Capitalism = best friends 4ever!
MORE
The West is an orientalist joke.
In the future everyone will be tortured for fifteen minutes.
Christmas is red like Communism. And I like both of them.