Shepard Fairey Quotes - Page 2

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• If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Book, Yield

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

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

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Way, Orthodoxy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

  Shepard Fairey

  Inspiration, Design, Quality

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• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Ignorance, Racism, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

  Shepard Fairey

  Running, Religious, Art

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

  Shepard Fairey

  Clever, People, Internet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Giving, Quality

  "Shepard Fairey on the Future of Political Art and Whether Obama Lived Up to His 'Hope' Poster". Interview with Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2015.

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• The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

  Shepard Fairey

  Inspiration, Musician, Giants

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• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Hurt, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Impact, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

  Shepard Fairey

  Rocks, Icons, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

  Shepard Fairey

  Pride, Self, Design

  Source: www.complex.com

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• When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, People, Cache

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Want, Pay, Damage

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• The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, People, Bully

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

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• The Internet wasn't even an option for me, so one of the reasons I was so motivated to do street art was because there was no other outlet. Maybe if the Internet had been around then, I would have tried to do stuff that went viral and was clever and got me a lot of hits.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Clever, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are too many bad policy choices to go into that are being pushed by the Trump Administration, but the relaxation of environmental regulations and corporate and banking regulations alone are enough to keep me busy and should be a big concern for every citizen who isn't a billionaire and likes to breathe air.

  Shepard Fairey

  Choices, Relaxation, Environmental

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The social and political issues the world faces are bigger than a few leaders. I made a lot of work about corporate influence in government, which is a problem in both parties and under any president.

  Shepard Fairey

  Party, Leader, Political

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the population is the biggest problem. That is caused by two things: campaign finance and the way that's structured, and by the Citizen's United supreme court decision. So those two things are keeping democracy from working right.

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  Thinking, Two, People

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• If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

  Shepard Fairey

  Ideas, People, Safety

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

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  People, Lazy, Arena

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that what led largely to Trump's election was the manifestation of the too-common mindset that facts don't matter; in other words, "manifest destiny" - the truth will not penetrate the barriers of our ideology if the truth doesn't sit well with our predispositions.

  Shepard Fairey

  Destiny, Thinking, Election

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Perspective

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• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Hate, Simple

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Obama has had a really tough time, but there have been a lot of things that he's compromised on that I never would have expected. I mean, drones and domestic spying are the last things I would have thought he'd support. I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.esquire.com

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