For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I’ve gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn’t really matter. Jean-Michel Basquiat Read Quote
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her. Jean-Michel Basquiat Read Quote
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’ Jean-Michel Basquiat Read Quote
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. Jean-Michel Basquiat Read Quote
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. Jean-Michel Basquiat Read Quote
