The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSince I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATIf I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI cross out words so you will see them more
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATOccasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATIf 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 BASQUIATI had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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