I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it. — 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 it is immortal. This struck a very deep note inside me. For I am quite aware of the chance that I have or will have AIDS. The odds are very great and, in fact, the symptoms… — Keith Haring Copy Share
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… — Keith Haring Copy Share
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
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