I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has toโฆexpose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they donโt normally think aboutโฆ [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
Keith HaringGood and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
Keith HaringYou 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 HaringThe public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a โself-proclaimed artistโ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. โฆ I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.
Keith Haring