48 Quotes by Jean-Michel Basquiat

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

I cross out words so you will see them more.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.

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

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

If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.