Eric Drooker Quotes About Posters

Quotes about: Posters

• The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks they're a little in control, focusing and trying to make a specific point. But even then, when you look at it a few years later, you realize you were just working through some of the usual feelings you were going through during that time.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.

  Eric Drooker

  Neighbor, Posters, Last Words

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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 larger than they are. They may have guns and pepper spray and helicopters and F16s and the whole U.S. military on their side, but when it comes down to it, we still have the numbers.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Military, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Wall, Mean

• 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.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Thinking, Twenties

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Eric Drooker

  New York, Men, Covered Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Yelling, Police

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Years, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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