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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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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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Awful Great Mad Occasionally Painting Some Woman
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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Actually Art Believe Draw Inspiration
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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Build Myself Name Want
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
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
I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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Country Fame Gallery People Person Star Want
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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Black Most Painting People Person Protagonist
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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All Around Exit Thirty Thread Time Word
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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End Mindwash Nowhere Philosophy Politics Religion Samo
My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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Across Apollo Artist Big Favorite Written
I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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Black Many Painting People Realize Them
If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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Away Bored Painting Week
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
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 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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Crosses Fact Make More Obscure Read Them Want Word
The more I paint the more I like everything.
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Everything Like More Paint

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