Art Quote by 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, then I'm all for it.”

Keith Haring

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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…

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“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…

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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…

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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

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

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

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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,…

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Nothing is important... so everything is important.

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

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

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