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Keith Haring

"The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a â€™self-proclaimed artistâ€™ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. â€¦ 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

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“Horses donâ€™t think the same as humans. Something thatâ€™s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesnâ€™t possess. Â And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. Â The horse doesnâ€™t possess any of those things. Â If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. Â And the way God made the horse, he left that out.”
“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”
“I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.”
“I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.”
“I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win”
“What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.”
“Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.”

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts
“I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'”

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