Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes & Sayings

21 most famous Jean-Michel Basquiat quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

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

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

“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.”

“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.”

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

“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.”

“I am not a black artist, I am an artist.”

“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.”