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

-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Artist Quotes #Black Quotes

“During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.”
“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”
“Express yourself through your art - whether itâ€™s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.”
“You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park”
“I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.”
“Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.”
“Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.”
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

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