Tag: Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I start a picture and I finish it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I’m not a real person. I’m a legend.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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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 black people in them.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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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 Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat