"I start a picture and I finish it." — Jean-Michel Basquiat
"I start a picture and I finish it."
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29 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what…
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
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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. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot…
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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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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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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…
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with…
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of…
— Russell Banks
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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what…
— Thomas Beecham
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on…
— Ray Bradbury
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Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again.…
— Jeff Bridges
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When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.
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I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East…
— Jimmy Carter
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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good.…
— Johnny Cash
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink…
— Anton Chekhov
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