Artist Quotes by Keith Haring

Art is for everybody.

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

— Keith Haring

The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody,

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one,…

— Keith Haring

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or…

— Keith Haring

I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main…

— Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an…

— Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of…

— Keith Haring

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go…

— Keith Haring

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and…

— Keith Haring

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much…

— Keith Haring

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the…

— Keith Haring

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything,…

— Keith Haring

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to…

— Keith Haring

“Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life.…

— Keith Haring