I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I cross out words so you will see them more
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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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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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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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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 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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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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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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I try to think about life.
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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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