The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
Shapes that contain no inner components of positivenegative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Everybody draws when they are little.
Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
The dripping. . . well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.
I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didnt know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.
In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit. That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.
We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong. . . So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.