Jean-Michel Basquiat famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Want #Facts #Crosses
The more I paint the more I like everything.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Paint
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Art #Needs #Critics
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

#Art #Thinking #Trying
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Artist #Black
I cross out words so you will see them more
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Crosses
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

#People #Drug #Awful
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Fire #Attention #Helping
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

#Stars #Hero #Thinking
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Art #Believe #Draws
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Real #Kids #Artist
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

#People #Black #Painting
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Bored #Painting #Week
I start a picture and I finish it.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Exit #Thread
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

#Mad #Awful #Painting
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

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

#Artist #Apollo #My Favorite
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

#Kids #Artist #Winning
I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Art #Thinking
Every single line means something.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Mean #Lines #Single Line
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

#Men #Ideas #Mind
I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Stars #Fame #Gallery
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Philosophy #Ends
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Young #Wanted #Cartoonist

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