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
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
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
Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police… — Eric Drooker Art Copy Share Image
Sometime when I was in my mid-twenties I noticed, "Hey, even I don't go into too many art galleries. Why? Because I… — 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
I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet… — Eric Drooker Come up 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
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
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
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
We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the… — Eric Drooker Comedy 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
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
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
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
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
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 Cop 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
The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head… — Eric Drooker Alternatives 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
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really… — Eric Drooker Art 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
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
