I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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I try to think about life.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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I have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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