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J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jay-Z

Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be. — Jay-Z

J M Basquiat 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

J M Basquiat Quotes By Matt Schulze

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous. — Matt Schulze

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Medicine men live in caves. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Claire Forlani

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of. — Claire Forlani

J M Basquiat Quotes By Tamra Davis

My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. — Tamra Davis

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By 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

J M Basquiat Quotes By Tamra Davis

In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. — Tamra Davis

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to build up a name for myself. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Julian Schnabel

When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would. — Julian Schnabel

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By 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

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Tamra Davis

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important. — Tamra Davis

J M Basquiat Quotes By Kim Gordon

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself. — Kim Gordon

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

The more I paint the more I like everything. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By 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

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean Pigozzi

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000 ... ' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. — Jean Pigozzi

J M Basquiat Quotes By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

J M Basquiat Quotes By Simon De Pury

In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early. — Simon De Pury

J M Basquiat Quotes By 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