black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Related Topics

Build Myself Name Want

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Anybody Art Critics Find Kisten Need Say
If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Away Bored Painting Week
I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Awful Completely Drug Lot People Reclusive Work
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Black Most Painting People Person Protagonist
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Abstract Artist Big Draw Expressionist Head Kid Messy Ram Really Winning
I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Black Many Painting People Realize Them
Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Attention Attract Cry Fire Help Helping Other
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 BASQUIAT

Idea Influence Men Mind Realize Talk Wanna
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

Crosses Fact Make More Obscure Read Them Want Word
I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Contest Lose never Painting Perfect Remember Spiderman
I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Art Life Picture Start Thinking
I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Become Famous Feeling People Romantic
My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Across Apollo Artist Big Favorite Written
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Celebrity Country Hero Heroes Peron Romantic Seventeen Star Think Thought
I cross out words so you will see them more
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Crosses More Out See World
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Artist Black People Person
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Art Life Thinking Work
I try to think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Beautiful Life Think Tru
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Awful Best Drug Ever Money Painting People Some
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

End Mindwash Nowhere Philosophy Politics Religion Samo
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Country Crazier Crazy Make More Paranoid People Think Thinking
The more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Everything Like More Paint
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Cartoonist Explore Make Wanted Wish Young
I start a picture and I finish it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Complete Finish Picture Start
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

All Around Exit Thirty Thread Time Word
I have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Chicken Head Hold Painting Somebody Underneath
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Actually Art Believe Draw Inspiration

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes