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

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

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

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.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I start a picture and I finish it.

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.

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 wanted to build up a name for myself.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

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

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 like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

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.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

Medicine men live in caves.

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

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

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

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

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 had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

I was a cute kid.

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

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