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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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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 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
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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Build Myself Name Want
I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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Black Many Painting People Realize Them
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
If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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Away Bored Painting Week
The more I paint the more I like everything.
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Everything Like More Paint
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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Artist Black People Person
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
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Awful Great Mad Occasionally Painting Some Woman
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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Country Crazier Crazy Make More Paranoid People Think Thinking
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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Actually Art Believe Draw Inspiration
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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Attention Attract Cry Fire Help Helping Other
I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
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Contest Lose never Painting Perfect Remember Spiderman
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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Black Most Painting People Person Protagonist
I cross out words so you will see them more
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Crosses More Out See World

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