Keith
“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 have happened any time,
and it is 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 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.
