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Art Quotes by Keith Haring
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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
- 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 is for everybody.
- Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
- 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 all…
- The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody,
- 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 celebrates…
- People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov