“the enemy of art is indifference…
… never underestimate your potential to make a difference.”
“art can affect change.”
“what at first was a budgetary limitation turned into an asthetic asset eventually.”
recent celeb and everywhere artist shepard fairey talks about his views on creativity, tagging, andre the giant + more in this segment. interesting to hear his take, “that grafitti is an eyesore but advertising is ok because it’s paid for, is ridiculous to me”. agree with his methods or not, he’s a great communicator that believes art is open to all and pushes his work in the direction to further that cause – that alone deserves respect.
apparently he’s saying + doing the right things as now sak’s fifth avenue is on the shepard fairey machine via brandweek here. he’s done up a new campaign for the struggling luxury retailer. fairey says, “that he decided to create the new campaign because ‘I’m not interested in speaking to a small group; I’ve always thought it was the duty of intelligence to make art for the people.’”
