Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community." — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says,… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't think they… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
