If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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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 am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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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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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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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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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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I cross out words so you will see them more
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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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Every single line means something.
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