I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThere are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATFire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATMy favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATOccasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI cross out words so you will see them more
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATIf 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.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATEvery single line means something.
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