44 result(s) for Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes.
"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix."
"I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact they are obscured makes you want to read them."
"I wanted to be a millionaire but I guess I gotta settle for being an artist."
"I'm not a real person. I'm a legend."
"I think I make art for myself but ultimately for other people."
"I start a picture, and I finish it."
"I like kids' work more than work of real artists any day."
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"The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings."
"Art is the basic primal activity, which a person undertakes to gain meaning, which fulfills a need of the soul."
"The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them."
"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous."
"Basquiat is a pop culture painter that does what he does for the money. The same as I do."
"I was the black kid in art school. I was invisible. They'd be doing a critique in my painting class and I'd be lectured by the white students."
"My hand is like a switch that turns me on."
"Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time."
"Believe it or not, I can actually draw"
"I am not a real person. I am a legend."
"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time."
"I think I make art for people to show them how we are, not to tell them how it is."
"I am not a concept, I am a person who makes art."
"Since 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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"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people."
"I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life."
"I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them."
"I believe artists should not be reflecting society, but shaping it."
"I intend to destroy, to obliterate, to pulverize everything in sight, until everything is razed to the ground."
"The more I paint, the more I like everything."
"Most young Kings get their heads cut off."
"The secret of my influence has always been it remained secret."
"I never went to art school. I failed the art classes that I did take in school. I just looked at a lot of things."
"Believe it or not, I can actually draw."
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
"I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot."
"I start a picture and I finish it."
"I cross out words so you will see them more. The fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them."
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"I am not a black artist, I am an artist."
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
"I don't care if people misunderstand me. I can't be misunderstood."
"I think there's something extremely magical about being able to paint on walls."
"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and find my best ideas arise from a storm."
"Most young Kings get their head cut off."
"I don't know how to describe it—it's like, just the act of writing is a process that makes your thoughts more engaging and more real."
"I was raised on the white side of town, but they always said I act like the black side."
"The more I paint the more I like everything."
