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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.

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I start a picture and I finish it.

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

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

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Medicine men live in caves.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I was a cute kid.

Jean-Michel Basquiat