Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to build up a name for myself.
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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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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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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 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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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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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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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 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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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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I try to think about life.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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