I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
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… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and George said art is more important because… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
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… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
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… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed,… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewart were again dismissed of… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
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