If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but … - Eric Drooker
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but …
- Eric Drooker
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it. - Eric Drooker
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.
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 anything. There are two items… - Eric Drooker
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 anything. There are two items…
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 of going along with it intu… - Eric Drooker
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 of going along with it intu…
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, … - Eric Drooker
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, …
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are … - Eric Drooker
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are …
I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimul… - Eric Drooker
I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimul…
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's … - Eric Drooker
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's …
Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us. - Eric Drooker
Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.
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