Top 35 Quotes About Jean Michel Basquiat

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

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#2. Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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#3. I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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#4. 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

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#5. SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

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#6. I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

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#7. Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

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#8. I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

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#9. My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

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#10. 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

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#11. 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.

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#12. I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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#13. There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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#14. 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

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#15. 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

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#16. 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.

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#17. I wanted to build up a name for myself.

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#18. Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

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#19. The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

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#20. I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

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#21. I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

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#22. 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

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#23. 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.

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#24. Every single line means something.

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#25. I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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#26. Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

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#27. 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.

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#28. The more I paint the more I like everything.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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#29. I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

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#30. If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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#31. 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

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#32. I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

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#33. 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

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#34. Medicine men live in caves.

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#35. I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

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