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 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
