I start a picture and I finish it.
From 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 wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.
I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
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.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about 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.
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