The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to build up a name for myself.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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 BASQUIATOccasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATBelieve it or not, I can actually draw.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
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 BASQUIATEvery single line means something.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI 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