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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.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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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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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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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 wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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Every single line means something.
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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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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 had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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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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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 am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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