Keith Haring

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. ↗

— Keith Haring

#celebrates #encourages #further #go #humanity

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

#another #beyond #completely #ego #go

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. ↗

— Keith Haring

#colors #eye #fact #guess #i

Art is for everybody. ↗

— Keith Haring

#everybody

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

— Keith Haring

#been #brings #drawing #lives #magic

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

#enlightened #fallen #i #into #me

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

#contribution #draw #i #i can #long

Nothing is important... so everything is important. ↗

— Keith Haring

#important #nothing

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

— Keith Haring

#experience #i #paint #reality #see

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. ↗

— Keith Haring

#components #contain #function #inner #nature