I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
