I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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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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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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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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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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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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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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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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