I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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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 start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
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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 was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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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 more I paint the more I like everything.
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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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Every single line means something.
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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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I start a picture and I finish it.
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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