I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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 start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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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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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 have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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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’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
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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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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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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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