"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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Source : Jean Michel Basquiat, Rudy Chiappini (2005). “Basquiat”, Museo D'Arte Moderna Citta Di Lugano

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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“And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.”
“I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.”
“Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.”
“March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.”
“Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.”
“Shut up or I'll kill you.”
“Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.”

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“There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.”

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