Quotes by Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey

A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump’s election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.

Ignorance

People

Racism

A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.

Art

People

Years

Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.

Art

Thinking

Unique

Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it’s actually not out of step.

Art

Perspective

Thinking

As a street artist, I’m used to sharing my stuff with the public. It’s a communal experience. I’ve learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

Artist

I've Learned

Stuff

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

Brilliant

Giving

Spoof

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important – it’s important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that’s not cool.

Art

Hurt

Thinking

I hate to say Americans are ignorant and lazy, but a lot of them are ignorant and lazy. It’s just like what I was talking about with Rebel Music and art. When you live in a place that has a lot of good things that make life easier, it’s easier to take them for granted. But what frustrates me to no end are people who want to blame Obama or blame anything that is something that if they were actually doing anything as simple as voting, it might not be as bad as it is.

Art

Hate

Simple

I said, ok, I’ll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.

Damage

Pay

Want

I think “punk” should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

Orthodoxy

Thinking

Way

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Art

Artist

Book

Brilliant

Bullshit

Bully

Cache

Canvas

Causes

Clever

Communication

Creative

Criminals

Damage

Design

Destiny

Exercise

Expression

Giants

Giving

Hate

Hurt

I've Learned

Ignorance

Impact

Inspiration

Intellectual

Internet

Leader

Looks

Mean

Musician

Orthodoxy

Paint

Party

Pay

People

Perspective

Political

Pride

Quality

Racism

Self

Simple

Spoof

Sticker

Stuff

Thinking

Two

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Quotes by Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey

A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump’s election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.

A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.

Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.

Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it’s actually not out of step.

As a street artist, I’m used to sharing my stuff with the public. It’s a communal experience. I’ve learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

I said, ok, I’ll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.

I think “punk” should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

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