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 HaringWhatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.
Keith HaringDrawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
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