Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

"Believe it or not, I can actually draw."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
(Related: Art, Needs)

"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
(Related: Art, Life)

"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
(Related: Money, People, Drugs)

"I start a picture and I finish it."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat

"I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
(Related: Life, Thought, Rest)

"I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat

"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
(Related: Thought, People, Famous, Feeling, Heroes, Romantic)