I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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 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 BASQUIATThe black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATBelieve it or not, I can actually draw.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
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 BASQUIATI had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
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