J M Basquiat Quotes

#1. Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#2. Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#3. My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. - Author: Tamra Davis

#4. I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#5. In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early. - Author: Simon De Pury

#6. On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: Royalty, heroism, and the streets. - Author: Jay-Z

#7. But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of. - Author: Claire Forlani

#8. I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do. - Author: Harvey Weinstein

#9. SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#10. When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would. - Author: Julian Schnabel

#11. I'm not a real person. I'm a legend. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#12. Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#13. I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#14. My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#15. I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work. - Author: Keith Haring

#16. I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns. - Author: Jeffrey Deitch

#17. 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. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#18. I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#19. There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#20. I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#21. I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall ... and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades. - Author: Brandi L. Bates

#22. I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad. - Author: Tamra Davis

#23. Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art. - Author: Owen Wilson

#24. 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. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#25. I wanted to build up a name for myself. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#26. Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous. - Author: Matt Schulze

#27. Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#28. The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#29. I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. - Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

#30. Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important. - Author: Tamra Davis