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Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat
I dont think about art when Im working. I try to think about life.

I dont think about art when Im working. I try to think about life. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. Id think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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famous
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I dont listen to what art critics say. I dont know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Art and science have their meeting point in method. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. – Jimmy Carter

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