JR Quotes

• Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

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  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

  "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

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  Art, World, Practical Things

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• The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

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  Art, Real, People

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• Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

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  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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• An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

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  Artist, Ideas, Risk

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• The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

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  Motivation, Nice, Book

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• To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.

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  Way

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• The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

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  Thinking, Media, Social

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• Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

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  Real, Giving, Dallas

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• Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

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  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.

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  Art, Together, Wish

  "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Prize 2011, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

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  Favors, Never Forget, Forget

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• I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

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  Art, Helping Others, People

  "Street artist's wish to change the world". "TEDTalk Tuesdays", www.cnn.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.

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  Business, Dallas, Anything Worth Having

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• When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.

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  Use, Shotguns, Barrels

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• When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

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  Eye, Journey, Cities

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• The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

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  Team, Keys, Skills

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• A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.

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  Car, Needs, Boat

  "Remembering J.R. Ewing, Television's Greatest Villain: A Tribute to Larry Hagman" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 24, 2012.

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• Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!

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  Revenge, Feelings, Dallas

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• Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!

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  Eye, Forgiving, Enemy

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• I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

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  Class, People, Together

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• Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.

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  Daddy, Way, Said

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• I'm waiting for the king to arrive

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  Kings, Waiting

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• The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!

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  People, Dallas, World

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