I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThere are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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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 realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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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 start a picture and I finish it.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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I try to think about life.
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I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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