The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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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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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 was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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I try to think about life.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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I cross out words so you will see them more
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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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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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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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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