Keith Haring Quotes

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, Humanity, Soul

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
Keith Haring

Art, Ignore, Few

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

Self, Ego, Working

Nothing is important... so everything is important.
Keith Haring

Important, Nothing

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

Power, Why, Fact

Art is for everybody.
Keith Haring

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

Together, Through, Same

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring

Poetry, Fallen, Swallowed

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

Long, Ability, Draw

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

Best, Experience, Reality

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
Keith Haring

Nature, Positive, Same

When I die there is nobody to take my place.
Keith Haring

Die, Place, Nobody

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
Keith Haring

Power, Fight, Important

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
Keith Haring

Time, Art, Young

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.
Keith Haring

Work, Control, Trying

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.
Keith Haring

Strong, Sometimes, Again

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 4, 1958

Died: February 16, 1990

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