Keith Haring Quotes

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• I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

  Keith Haring

  Believe, Secret

  "Don't do it for anyone else". www.lettersofnote.com. January 7, 2011.

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• The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Art Is

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• The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Eye, Reality

  "Haring – Art in Transit" by Keith Haring, www.haring.com.

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• Children know something that most people have forgotten.

  Keith Haring

  Children, People, Forgotten

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.130, Penguin

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• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Men, Drawing

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Responsibility, Reality

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• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

  Keith Haring

  Reason, Paint, No Reason

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Kids, Painting

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• Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

  Keith Haring

  Art, People, Art Is

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• My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Drawing, Long

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

  Keith Haring

  Heard

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• Art is for everybody.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Art Is

  "Coach Sends a Message with Keith Haring Tribute Collection" by Sam Reed, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 12, 2017.

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• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, People

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.

  Keith Haring

  Children, Color, Hatred

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin

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• The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Lying, Creativity

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• Nothing is important... so everything is important.

  Keith Haring

  Important

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

  Keith Haring

  Eye, Light, Blood

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• There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.

  Keith Haring

  Children

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin

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• I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  Keith Haring

  People, Lines, Shapes

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

  Keith Haring

  Art, Levels, Instant

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

  Keith Haring

  Opposites, Evil, Facts

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.132, Penguin

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• When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

  Keith Haring

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

  Keith Haring

  Reality, Paint, Transcending

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