Jean Michel Quotes & Sayings

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype — Jean Michel Jarre

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off. — 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

Protect the ocean and you protect yourself. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that. — Heather O'Neill

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad. — Tamra Davis

Medicine men live in caves. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

People will protect what they love. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

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

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored. — 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 didn't 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 didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work. — Keith Haring

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win. — Jean-Michel Charlier

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'm not a real person. I'm a legend. — 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

We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him? — Jean-Luc Godard

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

Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

I am not a black artist, I am an artist. — 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

Literature is not just stories. It's based on truth. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

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

Every single line means something. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you'll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it's worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a whole book to the question of atheism. He professed it, demonstrated it, arguing and quoting, sharing his reading and his reflections, and seeking confirmation from his own observations of the everyday world. His title sets it out clearly: Memoir of the Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier; and so does his subtitle: Clear and Evident Demonstrations of the Vanity and Falsity of All the Religions of the World. The book appeared in 1729, after his death. Meslier had spent the greater part of his life working on it. The history of true atheism had begun. — Michel Onfray

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

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination. — Jean-Michel Frank

Music is the human treatment of sounds. — Jean Michel Jarre

For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed them, and also to compose some new tracks for this new technology. All of the existing tracks in AERO have been performed with the original instruments, re-recorded and spatially arranged/spatialised for this new dimensional sound experience without betraying their very essence. — Jean Michel Jarre

I start a picture and I finish it. — Jean-Michel Charlier

Jean-Yves looked up at his mother's face, her greying chignon, her harsh features: it was difficult to feel a rush of tenderness, of affection for this woman; as far back as he could remember, she had never really been one for hugs; it was equally difficult to imagine her in the role of a sensual lover, a slut. He suddenly realised that his father must have been bored shitless his whole life. He felt terribly shocked by this, his hands tensed on the edge of the table: this time it was irreparable, it was definitive. In despair, he tried to recall a moment when he had seen his father beaming, happy, genuinely glad to be alive. — Michel Houellebecq

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

In due course, I came to classify writers into two categories: those who enabled you to arrive on time and those who caused you to be late. The Russian authors earned me a whole string of detentions. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

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

We always fear losing our memory, yet it's the source of our troubles. Happy people forget. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

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

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

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

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

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

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

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement. — Jean Michel Jarre

We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment. — Michel Houellebecq

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

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

I hated wasting my time. The only thing that seemed worthwhile to me was reading. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat of the strange desire we have for heaven, for love, and all that we cannot touch with our hands. — Jean-Michel Maulpoix

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. — 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

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

Only amnesiacs have no regrets. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards? — Jean-Michel Guenassia

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

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