Every single line means something.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATEvery single line means something.
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 like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATIf I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI try to think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThere are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSince I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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 BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATFire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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