Keith Haring Quotes & Sayings
23 most famous Keith Haring quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American artist who passed away on 16 February, 1990.
“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.”
“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.”
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”
“Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.”
“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.”
“Art is for everybody.”
“The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I die there is nobody to take my place.”
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