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JR The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR Art is not meant to change the world.
JR I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR With humour, there is life.
JR When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR What we see changes who we are.
JR I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
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