All Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
- I start a picture and I finish it. Finish
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Anybody
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. Awful
- The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. Country
- 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… Art
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. Chicken
- I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. Fame
- There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' All
- 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… Abstract
- 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… All
- I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. Cartoonist
- 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. Black
- Believe it or not, I can actually draw. Actually Draw
- I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. Art
- Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. Any
- I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them. Cross
- 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… Idea
- Every single line means something. Every Single
- I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life. Art
- SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. Bogus