Jean-Michel Basquiat

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

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

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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 have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

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Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

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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.

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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

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Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat