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 BasquiatIf 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.
Jean-Michel BasquiatOccasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
Jean-Michel Basquiat