Best 17 quotes of Jean-michel Basquiat on MyQuotes

Every single line means something.

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

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

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

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.

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

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

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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