Keith Haring — "I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."

"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 becoming much more aware of movement. The importance of movement is intensified when you reduce the image to its most elemental state."

"I’m not a martyr. I’m just an artist who got sick."

"I learned how to draw by drawing on the subway."

"My work was starting to be seen in the subway, and people were starting to recognize it. And that's when I started to feel like I was really doing something."