48 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

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

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

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.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

I start a picture and I finish it.

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 wanted to build up a name for myself.

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