Keith Haring — "I don’t believe in waiting for inspiration. I just start drawing."

"I’m not going to be another boring artist who just makes paintings."

"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, …"

"I am not a leader. I am a follower."

"I could have sold out years ago, but I didn’t. I’ve never had to compromise."

"The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses."