Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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Every single line means something.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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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 don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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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’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
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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 wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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