"The country makes me more paranoid, you know?……" — Jean-Michel Basquiat
"The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier."
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29 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat has 29 quotes on this site.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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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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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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More Country Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
— Chinua Achebe
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
— Chinua Achebe
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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