I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it.
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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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Every single line means something.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
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Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
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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 don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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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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I try to think about life.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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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 wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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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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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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