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Inspirational Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I start a picture and I finish it.
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
- There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
- I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
- Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
- I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
- I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
- Every single line means something.
- I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.
- SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
- I cross out words so you will see them more
- I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
- The more I paint the more I like everything.
- I wanted to build up a name for myself.
- If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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