Shepard Fairey Quotes

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• Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Believe, Ideas

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• Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.

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  Art, Emotion, Soothing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It's about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn't in any way take away from the original - and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Communication, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Views, Intellectual

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Causes, Sticker

  "The Medium Has No Meaning". www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.

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• I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

  Shepard Fairey

  Real, Ideas, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Unique

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Communication, People

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?

  Shepard Fairey

  Expression, Criminals

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• Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Long, People

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• I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

  Shepard Fairey

  Artist, Graffiti, Streets

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• I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Country, Team, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every spoof gives more power to the original.

  Shepard Fairey

  Giving, Brilliant, Spoof

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• I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to the core. People want to be masters of their own destinies, but at the same time, I think they do so selectively. Sometimes they want to be told exactly what to do so they don't have to think for themselves - as long as they can still exercise their free will.

  Shepard Fairey

  Exercise, Destiny, Thinking

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Original Thought, Internet

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• What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.

  Shepard Fairey

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

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• I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for both.

  Shepard Fairey

  Positivity, Thinking, Negativity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Artist, Stuff, I've Learned

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture, even if it's not recognized by the more elitist or pretentious members of the art world. Skateboarding itself requires creative adaptation to the streets and obstacles. My background as a skateboarder helped me to be a better street artist because I was already conditioned to look at the terrain opportunistically.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Creative, Design

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Free speech is important whether you like what's being said or not. The reason why it's so important is that the entire spectrum of ideas needs to be heard so that the best ones are embraced and rise to the top. If you're a liberal and don't like conservative speech and you try to stifle that conservative speech, you need to be prepared for your own progressive speech to be stifled when the power shifts out of your favor.

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  Important, Trying, Conservative

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Canvas, Paint

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• I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.

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  Powerful, People, Vulnerable

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Levels, Certain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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