I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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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 realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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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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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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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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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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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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