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
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
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
Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community." — Eric Drooker Community 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… — Eric Drooker Challenges 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
Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it… — Eric Drooker Art 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… — Eric Drooker Comedy 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
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
By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by… — Eric Drooker Artwork 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
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we… — Eric Drooker Advertising Copy Share Image
The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying. — Eric Drooker Problem 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
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And… — Eric Drooker Art 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
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
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
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'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all… — Eric Drooker Accustomed 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
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
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
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen -… — Eric Drooker Animation Copy Share Image