JR

Artist

1983-02-22

Quotes by JR

• A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

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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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• Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

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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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• Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

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• If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.

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• I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

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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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