I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something. Keith Haring More Quotes by Keith Haring More Quotes From Keith Haring 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 creativity inspirational art Nothing is important... so everything is important. Keith Haring important Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life Keith Haring instant levels art See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. Keith Haring transcending paint reality I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Keith Haring enlightened fallen has-beens 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. Keith Haring made people thinking 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, its a natural part in the evolution of the work. Keith Haring evolution doe trying 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 nails strong use I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up. Keith Haring grew grew-up wanted Everybody draws when they are little. Keith Haring draws littles You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't. Keith Haring use helping people When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France. Keith Haring france growing-up artist I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didnt know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work. Keith Haring inspiration new-york years When I die there is nobody to take my place. Keith Haring dies Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. Keith Haring function shapes negative I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it. Keith Haring real college school 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 understand look you art 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 ignore artist responsibility art 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. Keith Haring new never think important I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. Keith Haring fight you painting power
