#we

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

— Keith Haring

#enlightened #fallen #i #into #me

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #becoming #boom #collecting #combined

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

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#back #called #commercial #film #filmmaking

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#apart #called #completely #eventually #everything

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#car #did #eventually #garage #home

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#commercials #did #direct #expert #film

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#actually #agent #even #experience #extremely

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#advertising agencies #agencies #anything #asked #could

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #cancelled #cards #check #credit