Top 32 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

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

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

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

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

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

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

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.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'