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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Cartoonist
#Wanted
#Young
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Away
#Bored
#Get
#Painting
#Week
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Chicken
#Head
#Painting
#Somebody
#Where
For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Back
#Bad
#Drawing
#Good
#Matter
I was a cute kid.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Cute
#Kid
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
#Friends
#Home
#Nobody
#Park
#Trust
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Across
#Apollo
#Artist
#Big
#Favorite
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Charles
#Liked
#Never
#Work
My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Basic
#Been
#Influence
#Max
#Peter
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Another
#Artist
#Done
#Only
#Two
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Country
#Crazy
#Know
#Me
#People
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#About
#Exit
#Like
#Time
#Words
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#File
#Guitar
#Played
#Synthesizer
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Great
#Her
#Mad
#Painting
#Woman
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Actually
#Believe
#Draw
#I Can
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Day
#Like
#More
#Real
#Work
I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Gallery
#Star
#Wanted
I start a picture and I finish it.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Finish
#Picture
#Start
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Build
#Myself
#Name
#Up
#Wanted
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Losing
#Painting
#Perfect
#Remember
#Win
I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Going
#Life
#My Life
#Rest
#Thought
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
#About
#Famous
#Feeling
#People
#Romantic
Medicine men live in caves.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Caves
#Live
#Medicine
#Men
The more I paint the more I like everything.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Everything
#Like
#More
#Paint
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
#Black
#People
#Person
#See
#Them
Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Days
#Man
#Mood
#Think
#Up
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Best
#Lot
#Made
#Money
#People
#Some
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Child
#Look
#Made
#Make
#Want
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Art
#Critics
#Find
#Know
#Needs
#Say
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Am
#Artist
#Black
#I Am
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#About
#Art
#Life
#Think
#Try
I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
#Legend
#Person
#Real Person
#Real
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