I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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Every single line means something.
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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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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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
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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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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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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 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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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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