Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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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 wanted to build up a name for myself.
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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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I try to think about life.
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Every single line means something.
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I have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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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 realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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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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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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