Keith Haring Quotes

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• When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own…
• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything,…
• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
• See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
• Children know something that most people have forgotten.
• 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…
• When I die there is nobody to take my place.
• When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.
• The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying…
• 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 what…
• 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, and…
• Everybody draws when they are little.
• Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and…
• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...
• There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.
• The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity…
• Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
• I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
• Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.
• The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination,…

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