70 Quotes by 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.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life.

I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain.

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I’m sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

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.

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.

Risks are what make the difference between new ideas and re-worked old ideas.

I am becoming very hard on the outside and even softer on the inside.

As in all things: Time will clarify the events that are presently unclear.