Quotes from Eric Drooker

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

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.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

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.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.