Keith Haring

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw.

I don’t believe in waiting for inspiration. I just start drawing.

The more you do, the more you can do.

I don’t care if people remember me. I just want them to remember my work.

I don’t draw for galleries. I draw for people.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I’m not afraid of death. I’m afraid of not finishing my work.

The only rule is: there are no rules.

I don’t believe in mistakes. Everything is an experiment.

I don’t need drugs to hallucinate. My art is my trip.

I’m not a saint. I’m just a guy who draws.

The moment you stop creating, you start dying.

I don’t care about critics. I care about people.

Art is too important not to share.

Nothing is important…so everything is important.

I was always totally amazed that the people I would meet while I was doing them were really, really concerned with what they meant. The first thing anyone asked me, no matter how old, no matter who they were, was, 'What does it mean?'

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.