Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality and war.
Haring’s work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
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.
Nothing is important… so everything is important.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it
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