Michel Basquiat Quotes

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

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

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