My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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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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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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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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Every single line means something.
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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 wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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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 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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I start a picture and I finish it.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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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 had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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