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JR
French Artist
Born: Feb 22, 1983
Art Change Me People World You
Related authors: Camille Pissarro Claude Monet Edgar Degas Henri Matisse Marc Chagall Marcel Duchamp Paul Cezanne Paul Gauguin
The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. JR
Social Media Think Other More Social Really Connecting Each Media
I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer. JR
Man Become Retired Printer Am Wallpaper
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. JR
Art Change World Change The World Analogy Way See Perceptions Supposed Practical Practical Things Create Things
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. JR
Work Art Change People World Help Others Change The World Philanthropy Others Project Shadow Through Taking Highlight Participatory Concept Without Where Want Create Really Help Credit
The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear. JR
Art Day You Beauty Become Project One Day Impact Clear Always Cannot Measure
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. JR
Time Writing World Old Thinking Changing Changing The World Everywhere City Trip About Paris Adventure Name Excursion Doing Years Friends Going Canvas Rooftops Using Each Started
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. JR
Art You Change People World Believe Change The World Changing Changing The World Guess Way See Impact More More And More Smaller Interacting Interactions Then Creating Meant Why Lives
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. JR
Myself Me Responsibility Important Corporate Point Sponsors Subjects Brand Any Anyone Really Use
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. JR
Work Best Book People Control Nice Enough Would City Directly Could Never Make Decide Public Them Gallery Then Show Streets Present Imagine
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. JR
Me Travel Easy Stay Fact No-One Name Anonymous Knows Exhibit Want Wherever Means
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. JR
Art Great People Internet Final See About Take Most Understand Always Real Role Where Interesting Interesting Thing Means Displayed Play Street Thing Image
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. JR
Life Art Time Home You People Walk Few Changing Everyday Way Online Look Most Piece House Blocks Surprises Time People Just Fills
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. JR
Together People Calm Tension Without Mixed Up Grew Suburb Suburbs Working-Class
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.' JR
Work People Care Other One Thing About Never Taken For The People Advertisement Always Itself Than Anything Coca-Cola Thing Presents

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