Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat
I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Every single line means something. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I am not a black artist, I am an artist. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I wanted to build up a name for myself. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
The more I paint the more I like everything. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind. — Jean-Michel Basquiat