Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATBelieve it or not, I can actually draw.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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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 build up a name for myself.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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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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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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I try to think about life.
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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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 wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
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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.
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