“The reality of the 'mass naked happening' seemed to lie in the media, in the pictures, in the gesture — which meant nothing except insofar as it was reported”
“What happened was we had ... my wife is an artist and I am an artist and we had a quarrel about the fact that I was more, eh, exposed to the public than she was and she went to the bedroom and I went after her and she went out of the window”
“Basquiat has absorbed every trick in contemporary painting's book at an astoundingly early age. He's so precocious he's practically old before his time”
“What I missed immediately was the figure of Jean himself, one of the most beautiful young men — with one of the most original minds — I have ever met”
