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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• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

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

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

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

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

  I start a picture and I finish it.

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

  I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

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

• 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 ar

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

  Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

  I wanted to build up a name for myself.

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

  The more I paint the more I like everything.

• Jean-Michel Basquiat:

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