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People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
- Keith Haring
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#Difficult
#Investment
#People
#Time
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
#Create
#I Am
#Language
#Lines
#People
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.
- Keith Haring
#Control
#Evolution
#Trying
#Well
#Work
Everybody draws when they are little.
- Keith Haring
#Draws
#Everybody
#Little
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
#Art
#Know
#Look
#Secrets
#Understand
There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.
- Keith Haring
#Head
#Right
#Sometimes
#Stronger
#Will
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
- Keith Haring
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#Experience
#Paint
#Reality
#See
When I die there is nobody to take my place.
- Keith Haring
#Die
#Nobody
#Place
#Take
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.
- Keith Haring
#Art
#Ignore
#Realize
#Responsibility
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
#Ability
#I Can
#Long
#People
#World
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
- Keith Haring
#Been
#Fallen
#Me
#Poetry
#Up
Nothing is important... so everything is important.
- Keith Haring
#Everything
#Important
#Nothing
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
#Colors
#Power
#Stop
#Traffic
#Why
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.
- Keith Haring
#Beyond
#Ego
#Own
#Place
#Self
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
- Keith Haring
#Art
#Every
#Nothing
#People
#Reach
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
#Magic
#Man
#Together
#World
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
#Afford
#Art
#Buy
#Painting
#Shirt
#Who
Art is for everybody.
- Keith Haring
#Art
#Everybody
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
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#Humanity
#Imagination
#People
#Soul
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