Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
Interpretation
Drawing connects humans with their surroundings and has a timeless quality.
In this quote, Keith Haring emphasizes the enduring nature of drawing as a fundamental form of expression that links humanity to the world around us. He suggests that drawing not only serves as a means of representation but also contains an element of magic, capturing the essence of life and creativity through its simplicity and historical significance.
In practice
In an art class, to inspire students about the value of drawing.
I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.
When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.
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