Listen to Shepard Fairey…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Skateboarding saved my life! As both an activity and culture, skateboarding blew the doors open for me to see how creativity, fearlessness, independence, and style could let me paint my own story. To paraphrase Charles Bukowski, everything, worth saying or doing, dull or dangerous, is better with style. I learned the importance of style from skateboarding, but I apply style to my art and pretty much anything else I can. My friend Blaize Blouin, the only pro skater from Charleston S.C., where I grew up, used to say, \u201ctrendy tricks come and go, but the need for style is constant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n