Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes
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New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.
— Susana Martinez
Confidence, ultimately, is the characteristic that distinguishes those who imagine from those who do.
— Katty Kay
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
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
— Frank Winfield Woolworth
I have 20 wigs at home that I play with.
— Rita Ora
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 done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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
She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities.
— Jane Austen
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Medicine men live in caves.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.
— Alex Ebert
Man plans, God laughs.
— Erik Larson
Every single line means something.
— 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
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
— 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
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.
— Shashi Tharoor
Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
— 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 wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.
— Patricia Highsmith
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
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat