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For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is…

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Shepard Fairey has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker,
Every spoof gives more power to the original.
I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.
I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages?…
MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS…
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where…
I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as…
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets…
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.
If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then…
The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. — Mark Twain
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of… — Gore Vidal
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. — Mario Batali
My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real… — Julia Margaret Cameron
I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. — Archilochus
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element… — Douglas Sirk
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — John Ruskin
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. — Edward Tufte
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. — Brian K. Vaughan
When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach… — Patrick Stump

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