Keith Haring Quotes

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

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• I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

  

  Allen Tate
  • Rock
  • Dark
  • Dead

• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Work
  • God
  • Heaven

• How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Band
  • Heard
  • Replacements

• Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Heard
  • Bones
  • Havens

• Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

  

  Donald Michael Thomas
  • She
  • Silence
  • Heard

• Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

  

  Count Basie
  • Heard
  • Plays
  • Box

• Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Work
  • Women
  • Crazy

• These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Remember
  • Heard
  • Graduation

• I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Funny

• When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

  

  J. Brent Bill
  • Love
  • Heard
  • Crowds

• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

  

  William Cowper
  • Age
  • Giving
  • Birth

• I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Believe
  • Gift
  • Greatest

• I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? We are a peace-loving state and we want to cooperate with all of our neighbors and with all of our partners.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Doe
  • Heard

• Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.

  

  Xunzi
  • Practice
  • Knowing
  • Heard

• ...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Speak
  • Heard
  • Clearness

• When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono).

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Heard
  • Get Away
  • Sonny Bono

• I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • Blow
  • Heard

• On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Scene

• I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Talent

• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  

  Michael Flatley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heard

• A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Happens
  • Advance
  • Synthesis

• What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Pay
  • Ourselves
  • Buy

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

  

  Keith Haring
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