American - Artist | May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990
You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.
Keith Haring
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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.
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Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
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My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
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Nothing is important... so everything is important.
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I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.
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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 stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
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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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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 humanity instead of manipulating it.
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When I die there is nobody to take my place.
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Art is for everybody.
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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 self. That's what it's all about.
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