Top 32 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

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

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.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

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

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

The more I paint the more I like everything.

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