I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI am not a black artist, I am an artist.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSince I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATEvery single line means something.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI try to think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATOccasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThere are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATMost Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to build up a name for myself.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATFire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT