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“I was also combining what was happening at night and what was happening at school, which meant that the subject matter of many of my drawings was completely phallic. All those little abstract shapes I was doing became completely phallic. It was a way of asserting my sexuality and forcing other people to deal with it. Also there were a lot of guys—kids who had just come from high school, from Long Island and New Jersey—who didn’t really know why they wanted to become artists. Because of my drawings, and because of how friendly I was, they were sort of forced to respect me and deal with me. I consciously faunted the fact that I was interested in dicks. So I was becoming friends with these kids through these drawings, and it wasn’t about making sexual advances, which I didn’t. It was really that I spent 90 percent of my time outside of school being totally obsessed with sex and that became the subject of my work”
— Keith Haring, the Authorized Biography, J Gruen. New York, 1991, p. 35). Photo: Keith Haring New York City, Larry Ashton
