I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
More Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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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 have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
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Every single line means something.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
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I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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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 had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
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