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Keith Haring

"The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... 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... Nothing is important... so everything is important."

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

Keith Haring

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“The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.”
“I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.”
“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”
“A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.”
“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”

Source : Walter Dean Myers (1996). “Slam!”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.
“One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.”
“He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.”

Source : Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.
“No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as fresh. But he may be a better surgeon. His ad may not be quite as fresh and glowing as the Madison Ave. fraternity would like to see it be, and yet he might write an ad that will produce five times the sales. And that's the name of the game, isn't it?”

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