Abstract Expressionist Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

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• I start a picture and I finish it.
• I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
• Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
• The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
• I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.…
• I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
• I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
• There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd…
• Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I…
• I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
• The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people…

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