Keith Haring

“The public has a right to art.”

“I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language.”

“Art is for everybody.”

“Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.”

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”

“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.”

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

“My contribution to the world is my ability to draw.”

“Children know something that most people have forgotten.”

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

“Whatever you do, the key is to be as honest as you can be.”

“I don't know where the art comes from, but it's not me. I am just a channel.”

“I was a participant in the transformation of my era.”

“Nothing is important... so everything is important.”

“I am a necessary artist.”