Keith Haring Professions : Visual Artist Born : May 4, 1958 Died : February 16, 1990 Browse All Authors Top 42 quotes by Keith Haring Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else. Keith Haring secret believe 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. Keith Haring imagination art thinking 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, invention and confrontation. Keith Haring eye reality art Children know something that most people have forgotten. Keith Haring forgotten children people 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 with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together. Keith Haring responsibility reality art 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 painting kids art Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. Keith Haring drawing men 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 he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. Keith Haring people art thinking 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, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important. Keith Haring people art thinking I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something. Keith Haring heard Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people. Keith Haring art-is people art 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. Keith Haring drawing long art The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody. Keith Haring art-is art 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 hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life. Keith Haring color hatred children I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times. Keith Haring lines shapes people 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. Keith Haring light eye blood The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. Keith Haring no-reason paint reason 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 reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life. Keith Haring creativity lying art There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile. Keith Haring children Art is for everybody. Keith Haring art-is art Similar Authors Annette Messager visual-artist Andrew Wyeth visual-artist Alice Neel visual-artist Adrian Piper visual-artist Ilya Kabakov visual-artist David Kassan visual-artist All Authors
