I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Art 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 Days Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Awful Copy Share Image
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Artist Copy Share Image
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Bogus Copy Share Image
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Art Copy Share Image
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat Around Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Crosses 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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Charlie 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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Ideas 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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Abstract Copy Share Image
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Artist Copy Share Image
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Andy warhol 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 Art Copy Share Image
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Attention Copy Share Image
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Art Copy Share Image
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Apollo Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Black Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Could Copy Share Image
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Artist Copy Share Image
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Country Copy Share Image
