All Keith Haring Quotes
- 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… All
- 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,… Anything Never
- Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. Been
- See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. Best
- Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children
- 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… Art
- When I die there is nobody to take my place. Die
- When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France. Artist
- 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… Control
- 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… Any
- 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… All
- Everybody draws when they are little. Draws
- 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… All
- The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... Best
- There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile. Child
- 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… Act
- Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life Art
- I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Been
- Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else. Anyone
- 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,… Art
- I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing… Basquiat
- Art is for everybody. Art
- Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. Better
- There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on… Head
- Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people. Art