Keith Haring Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody draws when they are little.
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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.
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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.
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When I die there is nobody to take my place.
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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
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The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.
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Nothing is important... so everything is important.
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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.
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Art is for everybody.