JR Quotes

With humour, there is life.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

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.

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it or they won't. But what you see through any of these actions is that there's going to be discussion and it's going to bring people together.

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

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.

Art is not meant to change the world.

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

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

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

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.

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

What we see changes who we are.

I'm waiting for the king to arrive

When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.

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

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

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

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

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.

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.

Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!

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

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.

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.

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

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

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