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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO as an end to bogus pseudo intellectual. My mouth, therefore an error. Plush safe... he think.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Born: December 22, 1960

Died: August 12, 1988 (aged 27)

Bio: Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist.

Known for:

Irony of Negro Policeman (1981)
Untitled (Boxer) (1982)
Horn Players (1983)
Hollywood Africans (1983)
God, Law (1981)

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