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'But once you cut this thing out of steel and put it up, it is a real thing, I mean it could kill you... It has a kind of power that a painting doesn't have. You can't burn it. It would survive a nuclear blast probably. It has this permanent, real feeling that will exist much much longer than I will ever exist, so it's a kind of immortality. All of it I guess, to a degree, is like that... All of the things that you make are a kind of quest for immortality.'

(K. Haring, quoted in Flash Art, March 1984, p. 22).