Joey Skaggs Quotes

• Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

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• It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can’t do it and I won’t do it.

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• It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

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• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

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• My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

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• I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

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• But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

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• But my favorite work is always my next piece.

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• We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited – sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

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• My art became very public.

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• I’ve always been a fine artist.

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• Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn’t trust me.

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• The media’s job is to question a premise.

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• What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

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• If I’m successful in fooling a wire service, I don’t really have to do anything else to promote the story.

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• Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

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• When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

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Joey Skaggs (17)

Birth:	1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Writer

About

Joey Skaggs is an American artist, writer and prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. He studied at the High School of Art and Design. He earned a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is the author of book, entitled Alluminations (with Iztok Osojnik).

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