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> [Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/pure-art-exists-only-on-the-level-of-instant-response-to-pure-life/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

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## More by 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 further. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/i-don-t-think-art-is-propaganda-it-should-be-something-that-liberates/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 as possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/i-think-as-much-as-possible-an-artist-if-he-has-any-kind-of-social-or/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [“There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and George said art is more important because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/there-is-one-question-george-is-asked-about-life-and-art-and-which-is/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 make bourgeois…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/the-public-needs-art-and-it-is-the-responsibility-of-a-self/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/see-when-i-paint-it-is-an-experience-that-at-its-best-is-transcending/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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, then I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/if-commercialization-is-putting-my-art-on-a-shirt-so-that-a-kid-who/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/the-dripping-well-if-it-happens-it-happens-it-does-not-take-anything/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/the-best-reason-to-paint-is-that-there-is-no-reason-to-paint/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/children-are-the-bearers-of-life-in-its-simplest-and-most-joyous-form/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [Nothing is important... so everything is important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/nothing-is-important-so-everything-is-important/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/drawing-is-still-basically-the-same-as-it-has-been-since-prehistoric/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/there-is-nothing-that-makes-me-happier-than-making-a-child-smile/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 inspirations for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/i-didn-t-start-doing-graffiti-until-two-years-after-i-got-to-new-york/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [“March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewart were again dismissed of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/march-28-1987-today-i-read-in-the-new-york-times-that-all-of-the/)

[Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/)

> [The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/the-act-of-creation-is-a-kind-of-ritual-the-origins-of-art-and-human/)

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