Art Quote by Eric Drooker

“Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.”

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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…

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I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least…

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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…

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Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."

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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…

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Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.

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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, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always…

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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…

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The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks they're a little in control, focusing and trying to make a specific point. But even then, when you look at it a few years later, you realize you were just working through some of the usual…

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Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

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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…

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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…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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