I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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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 am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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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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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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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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I try to think about life.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.
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