What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive. Typically your work will… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated… — 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
