capitalnewyork: From the Subways to Soho | Interview Magazine | January 1983 Famed Metropolitan curator HENRY GELDZAHLER: Did you have any idea about breaking into the art world?JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: No.HG: But when I saw you, you were about 17 years old. You were showing me drawings, that was 4 or 5 years ago… I was in the restaurant, WPA, in Soho.JMB: Yeah, I remember.HG: So you already had work to show.JMB: No, I was selling these postcards and somebody told me you had just gone into this restaurant. It took me about 15 minutes to get up the nerve to go in there. I went in and you said, “Too young.” And I left.HG: Cruel, but true.JMB: It was true at the time.HG: Were you furious?JMB: Sort of. I mean, too young for what, you know? But I could see, it was lunch time. “Who is this kid?”
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From the Subways to Soho | Interview Magazine | January 1983

Famed Metropolitan curator HENRY GELDZAHLER: Did you have any idea about breaking into the art world?

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: No.

HG: But when I saw you, you were about 17 years old. You were showing me drawings, that was 4 or 5 years ago… I was in the restaurant, WPA, in Soho.

JMB: Yeah, I remember.

HG: So you already had work to show.

JMB: No, I was selling these postcards and somebody told me you had just gone into this restaurant. It took me about 15 minutes to get up the nerve to go in there. I went in and you said, “Too young.” And I left.

HG: Cruel, but true.

JMB: It was true at the time.

HG: Were you furious?

JMB: Sort of. I mean, too young for what, you know? But I could see, it was lunch time. “Who is this kid?”

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