“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.” KindArtistCultureCracksAccustomed Author:Eric Drooker
“Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.” IfsPoliticalStatementsAbstract Author: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 intuitively.” ThinkingKnowsKindArtRealReasonArtistArt IsUnconscious Author:Eric Drooker
“When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.” ThinkingArtBuildingTwentiesStrikesConcretePostersTenants Author:Eric Drooker
“I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksHas BeensIndividualBackgroundsFactorsCuriousCandidatesVotersWork Experience Author:Michele Bachmann
“Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."” Community Author:Eric Drooker
“Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.” PeopleMeanArtEndsArt IsSeducingEyeballsMeans To An End Author:Eric Drooker
“In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.” ArtEndsEnoughSchoolTaughtArt IsSakeExpress YourselfArt School Author:Eric Drooker
“The art was just a way of hooking people in, saying: "Hey, maybe there's something cool about the tenant meeting. If the picture's really cool and weird, maybe I should check this out." And I think all of my art has really developed out of that realization.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayShouldArtMeetingsChecksHeyRealizationReally CoolTenants Author:Eric Drooker
“Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.” IfsBigsFormMoralAdvertisingProstitutionHang UpsIllustratorsIllustrating Author:Eric Drooker