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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

~Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

~Jean-Michel Basquiat

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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

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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.

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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 build up a name for myself.

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Medicine men live in caves.

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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

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I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

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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 messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 22nd, 1960

Died: August 12th, 1988

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