Quotes from Keith Haring

BLACK LEATHER ITALIAN DOMINATION CALLING AFTER HE SAID BLACK EYES HIT HARD

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.

The destructive element exists in all art, but ultimately is determined only by the ideas of the viewer.

Knowing that it is up to me what happens next. (And knowing when it is out of my hands.)

I am filled with a certain kind of doubt about my role in the world. But that does not stop me from participating in the world. It only keeps me from expecting something from the world. It

I wish I was not so determined to feel secure about everything. I want everything to be comfortable and in reality nothing ever is.

Suzy said my hair looks like there are dead animals living in it. At least they're dead.

Individuality is the enemy of this mass society. Individuality speaks for the individual and makes him a significant factor. Art is individuality.

I don't really know exactly what I want to be, but I know what I don't want to be.

I am now 28 years old on the outside and nearly 12 years old on the inside. I always want to stay 12 years old on the inside.

I paint differently every day. every hour. every minute. every instant.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

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.

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.

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 nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Art is for everybody.

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Everybody draws when they are little.