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

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

“There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and George said art is more…

— 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

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

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you…

— Keith Haring

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

— 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…

— Keith Haring

Nothing is important... so everything is important.

— Keith Haring

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives…

— Keith Haring

There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.

— 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

“March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewart were again…

— Keith Haring

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of…

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good…

— Keith Haring

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

— Keith Haring

Art is for everybody.

— 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

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

— Keith Haring

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

— 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

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

— Keith Haring

Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something,…

— Keith Haring