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.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATFire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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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 start a picture and I finish it.
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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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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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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. I don’t think about art while I work.
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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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