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I was a cute kid.
Medicine men live in caves.
Every single line means something.
I start a picture and I finish it.
I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
I cross out words so you will see them more
The more I paint the more I like everything.
I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
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.
If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.
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.
For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.
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.