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Keith Haring Quotes

Keith Haring Quotes

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

“I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

“I am interested in making art that can be experienced and understood by everyone.”

“The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realise the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.”

“Art is one of the last areas that is totally within the realm of the human individual and can’t be copied or done better by a machine or technology.”

“Art is for everybody.”

“I don’t think that graffiti is vandalism; I think it’s a beautiful form of self-expression.”

“The lines I draw are an expression of my innermost feelings.”

“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.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“Art is nothing if you don’t reach every segment of the people.”

Untitled,1985, Keith Haring

“My work is not about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.”

“I’m not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don’t really want it to carry one. I’m not interested in the didactic.”

“I don’t believe in art as an elitist activity.”

“The most important thing in life is to remember the importance of life.”

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”

“I wanted to work in the street because I wanted to reach the people.”

“Art should be something that stimulates the imagination and encourages people to think and question.”

“Art is the universal language.”