My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATEvery single line means something.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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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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I start a picture and I finish it.
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Every single line means something.
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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 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 was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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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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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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