I start a picture and I finish it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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Every single line means something.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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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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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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