48 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.