Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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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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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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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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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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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 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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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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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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