I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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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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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 like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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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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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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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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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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