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Keith Haring
American
Artist
Born:
May 4
,
1958
Died:
Feb 16
,
1990
About
Art
Important
People
Will
You
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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
You
Secrets
Hidden
About
Supposed
Know
Look
Understand
Any
Anything
Things
Appreciate
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
Needs
Responsibility
Few
Bourgeois
Masses
Make
Artist
Public
Realize
Ignore
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
Keith Haring
Me
Poetry
Fallen
Been
Up
Swallowed
Enlightened
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
Keith Haring
Art
You
People
Nothing
Every
Segment
Reach
Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
Keith Haring
Nature
Better
Will
Other
Relationships
Components
Shapes
Contain
Same
Function
Inner
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
You
Fight
Natural
Power
Important
Control
Painting
Think
Kind
Trickle
No Reason
Like
Makes
Materials
Wall
Themselves
Reason
Paint
Gravity
Extent
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
People
World
Will
Long
Draw
Ability
Contribution
Much
Many
Art is for everybody.
Keith Haring
Art
Everybody
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
People
Language
Intrigued
Minimum
All People
Indication
Object
Entire
Structure
Shapes
Within
Becomes
Am
Lines
Times
Common
Forms
Create
Languages
Choose
Basic
Symbol
Symbols
Everybody draws when they are little.
Keith Haring
Everybody
Draws
Little
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Keith Haring
Best
Experience
Reality
See
Transcending
Paint
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
You
Ego
Own
Totally
About
Self
Beyond
Another
Go
Tapping
Place
Working
Your
Things
Universal
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
Strong
Sometimes
Will
Stronger
Once
Some
Seem
Only
Head
Nail
Because
Makes
Reduced
Hit
Just
Which
Again
Them
Really
Use
Right
Images
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
Good
School
College
State
High
Pennsylvania
High School
About
Only
Small
Good Thing
Small Town
Town
Like
Well
Real
Up
Movie
Grew
Theater
Movie Theater
Thing
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