Basquiat Quotes
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I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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
The more I paint the more I like everything.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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
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 to people.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Medicine men live in caves.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Every single line means something.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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
I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
— Tamra Davis
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
— Claire Forlani
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat