"When I made the 'Hope' poster, I did it as a grassroots endeavor. I thought, 'I’m a street artist who’s been very critical frequently of government policy.'"

"There’s no way that Obama’s campaign will think that I’m anything but toxic.'... I’m really happy that the ‘Hope’ poster has become a reference point, and I have very complex feelings about Obama as president, about how my art is sometimes reinterpreted.... But it’s a net-positive because I think what I did, coming from very few resources and from an outsider perspective, demonstrates that grassroots art can make a difference."

Said Shepard Fairey, who's got a new huge mural of a wave in Jersey City.