Top 45 Quotes About Basquiat
#1. 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.
Simon De Pury
#2. My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
Tamra Davis
#3. In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery.
Tamra Davis
#4. Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
Tamra Davis
#5. 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.
Matt Schulze
#6. 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.
Owen Wilson
#7. 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.
Tamra Davis
#8. 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.
Brandi L. Bates
#9. 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.
Keith Haring
#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.
Julian Schnabel
#11. 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.
Harvey Weinstein
#12. But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
Claire Forlani
#13. 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.
Jay-Z
#14. 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.
Jeffrey Deitch
#15. I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#17. I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#18. 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.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#22. 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.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#26. 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
#30. The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#33. 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
#34. 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.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#35. There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#37. 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.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#38. My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#40. Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#42. SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#43. I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#45. Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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