Keith Haring Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Everybody draws when they are little.
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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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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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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
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When I die there is nobody to take my place.
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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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The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.
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Art is for everybody.