Keith Haring Quotes - Page 2

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

  Keith Haring

  Reality, Paint, Transcending

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

  Keith Haring

  Enlightened, Fallen, Has Beens

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• When I die there is nobody to take my place.

  Keith Haring

  Dies

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin

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• I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didnt know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.

  Keith Haring

  New York, Inspiration, Years

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• The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

  Keith Haring

  Trying, Doe, Evolution

  Keith Haring, Kwong Chi Tseng (1986). “Keith Haring vue par Tseng Kwong Chi”

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• You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

  Keith Haring

  People, Use, Helping

  "Keith Haring Journals".

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• When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

  Keith Haring

  Growing Up, Artist, France

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• Everybody draws when they are little.

  Keith Haring

  Littles, Draws

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

  Keith Haring

  Grew Up, Grew, Wanted

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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• 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, Nails, Use

  Keith Haring, Kwong Chi Tseng (1986). “Keith Haring vue par Tseng Kwong Chi”

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

  Keith Haring

  Negative, Shapes, Function

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

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• 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

  Real, School, College

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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