"There are about 30 words around you all……" — Jean-Michel Basquiat
"There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'"
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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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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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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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