There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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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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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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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 had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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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 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 am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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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 was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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