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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…

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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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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Crosses Fact Make More Obscure Read Them Want Word
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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Awful Best Drug Ever Money Painting People Some
My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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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 like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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I try to think about life.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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Actually Art Believe Draw Inspiration
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 wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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Country Fame Gallery People Person Star Want
I start a picture and I finish it.
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Complete Finish Picture Start
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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Black Many Painting People Realize Them
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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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 have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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Chicken Head Hold Painting Somebody Underneath
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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Black Most Painting People Person Protagonist
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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Celebrity Country Hero Heroes Peron Romantic Seventeen Star Think Thought
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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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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Cut Cutting Head King Most Off Young
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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Artist Black People Person
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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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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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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Every single line means something.
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Every Line Mean Single Something

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