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“The use of commercial projects has enabled me to reach millions of people whom I would not have reached by remaining an unknown artist. I assumed, after all, that the point of making art was to communicate and contribute to culture.” - Keith Haring

Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990)

“No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes.... part of the reason that I’m not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it’s not a limitation, in a way. It could happen any time, and it’s going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I’m doing right now is exactly what I want to do.”

“All of the things that you make are a kind of quest for immortality. Because you’re making these things that you know have a different kind of life. They don’t depend on breathing, so that they’ll last longer than any of us will. Which is sort of an interesting idea, that it’s sort of extending your life to some degree.”

-Keith Haring

Description
“The use of commercial projects has enabled me to reach millions of people whom I would not have reached by remaining an unknown artist. I assumed, after all, that the point of making art was to communicate and contribute to culture.” - Keith Haring

Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990)

“No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes.... part of the reason that I’m not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it’s not a limitation, in a way. It could happen any time, and it’s going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I’m doing right now is exactly what I want to do.”

“All of the things that you make are a kind of quest for immortality. Because you’re making these things that you know have a different kind of life. They don’t depend on breathing, so that they’ll last longer than any of us will. Which is sort of an interesting idea, that it’s sort of extending your life to some degree.”

-Keith Haring