Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to… — Eric Drooker Alive 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… — Eric Drooker Last words Copy Share Image
The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying. — Eric Drooker Experience Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker Comedy Copy Share Image
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end… — Eric Drooker Art 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of… — Eric Drooker Accustomed Copy Share Image
We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your… — Eric Drooker All kinds 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… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or… — Eric Drooker Audience Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it… — Eric Drooker Cartoon Copy Share Image
As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
The art was just a way of hooking people in, saying: "Hey, maybe there's something cool about the tenant meeting. If the… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it… — Eric Drooker Animation 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… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the… — Eric Drooker Art 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… — Eric Drooker Book Copy Share Image
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Abstract Copy Share Image
We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk… — Eric Drooker Americans Copy Share Image
If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such… — Eric Drooker Appreciate Copy Share Image
What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to,… — Eric Drooker Artist Copy Share Image
Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community." — Eric Drooker Americans Copy Share Image
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly. — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up… — Eric Drooker Art 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."… — Eric Drooker Cop Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us. — Eric Drooker Anger Copy Share Image
Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an… — Eric Drooker Archives Copy Share Image
In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago. — Eric Drooker Chicago Copy Share Image
I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a… — Eric Drooker Bigs 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.… — Eric Drooker Country Copy Share Image
With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
![“As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.” quote by Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/709/eric-drooker-12664_art_as-i-developed-as-an-artist-and-studied_1859518.jpg)
![“Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.” quote by Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/217/eric-drooker-12664_archives_typically-your-work-will-end-up-in-a-mus_3082785.jpg)
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