I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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 BASQUIATFire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATIf I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATThe country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI try to think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATBelieve it or not, I can actually draw.
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 have a painting where somebody’s holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody’s head.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATI start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATMy favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATMost Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIATSince I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix…
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