Basquiat Quote by Jeffrey Deitch

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

— Nancy Pearcey

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

— Scandanavian Proverb

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard…

— Jean Pigozzi

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.

— Claire Forlani

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the…

— Harvey Weinstein

When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people…

— Julian Schnabel

Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has…

— Owen Wilson

In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people…

— Simon de Pury

Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous,…

— Jay-Z

On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what…

— Jay-Z

I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for…

— Keith Haring

“I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.”

— Brandi L. Bates