If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATIf you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATFire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATOccasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to build up a name for myself.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI am not a black artist, I am an artist.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATMy favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
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 BASQUIATThere are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATMost Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT