Art is for everybody. To think that they—the public—do not appreciate art because they don't understand it, and to continue to make art that they don't understand and therefore become alienated from, may mean that the artist is the one who doesn't understand or appreciate art and is thriving in this “self-proclaimed knowledge of art” that is actually bullshit.
— Keith Haring Modern

Pop art, activism

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