American - Artist | December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988
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.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
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If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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Medicine men live in caves.
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Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
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I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
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I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
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I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
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