“I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs...” — Jean-Michel Basquiat Quote

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

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

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 wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.