"I wanted to be a star, not a…" — Jean-Michel Basquiat
"I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot."
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29 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat has 29 quotes on this site.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what…
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot…
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I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi…
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with…
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see…
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some…
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame…
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone…
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
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