Jean-Michel Basquiat 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."

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

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Medicine men live in caves.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

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

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte m...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out ...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's he...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I know one day I'll turn the corner and I won't be ready for it.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many p...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody'...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I wanted to build up a name for myself.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I was a cute kid.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's ...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

The more I paint the more I like everything.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no dif...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

The value of streaming platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd u...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument th...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Emotions are the basics of any art form!
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerin...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!
MICHEL JEAN SEDAINE

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black h...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect betwee...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robo...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and rol...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a posit...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singe...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspira...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive ...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology:...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingr...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. ...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the fi...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in th...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first Europe...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Our hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterf...
JEAN MICHEL CHAPEREAU

- Tu es et tu resteras toujours une petite-bourgeoise moraliste. Comme Camus.
- Tu es et tu res...
JEAN-MICHEL GUENASSIA

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoi...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but en...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL

In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.
MICHEL ONFRAY

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a pos...
MICHEL MARTELLY

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for body...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks ...
MICHEL FABER

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sh...
MICHEL FABER

Sugar understood the permanence of being Sugar or Lotty or Lucy or whoever you might be, trapped on ...
MICHEL FABER

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyse...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso...
MICHEL LEIRIS

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps n...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doct...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subject...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of socie...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, w...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, ...
MICHEL LEIRIS

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign ente...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the e...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We gener...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting d...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavi...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who w...
MICHEL GONDRY

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and disca...
MICHEL FABER

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
MICHEL FABER

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pud...
MICHEL FABER

It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was...
MICHEL MARTELLY

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clerg...
MICHEL ONFRAY

We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is cl...
MICHEL ONFRAY

It's about time that Amtrak entered the 21st century. Revenue maximization works, and as Amtrak sees...
ALLEN MICHEL

Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much.
ALLEN MICHEL

I would try to settle all the outstanding liability claims at this point in time, so that it doesn't...
ALLEN MICHEL

They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them ...
ALLEN MICHEL

When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the ris...
ALLEN MICHEL

They have to try to minimize each one of these risks until they finally enter the actual battle of r...
ALLEN MICHEL

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.”
“You might not think so if you were a...
MICHEL FABER

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too o...
MICHEL ONFRAY

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitut...
MICHEL ONFRAY

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife enge...
MICHEL ONFRAY

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unluck...
MICHEL PATINI

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rar...
HARTMUT MICHEL

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, inclu...
MICHEL ONFRAY

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent averag...
MICHEL FABER

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ...
MICHEL GONDRY

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will ...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

I have a big problem with Islam.
MICHEL ONFRAY

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating fo...
MICHEL ONFRAY

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crim...
MICHEL FABER

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved...
MICHEL FABER

'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reade...
MICHEL FABER

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when...
PRAS MICHEL

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
MICHEL LEGRAND

When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, becaus...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius -...
MICHEL GONDRY

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their desc...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or ...
MICHEL FABER

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
MICHEL EYQUEM

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
MICHEL EYQUEM

The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL EYQUEM

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
MICHEL EYQUEM

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
MICHEL EYQUEM

No wind favors him who has no destined port.
MICHEL EYQUEM

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov...
MICHEL EYQUEM

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL EYQUEM

This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one ...
MICHEL AOUN

This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the ...
MICHEL AOUN

Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,
MICHEL AOUN

We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian contro...
MICHEL AOUN

The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explo...
MICHEL AOUN

one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.
MICHEL AOUN

I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still op...
MICHEL AOUN

If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ...
MICHEL AOUN

The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government an...
MICHEL AOUN

If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals.
MICHEL AOUN

We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected.
MICHEL ALABY

Ore doesn't have added value.
MICHEL ALABY

It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure.
MICHEL ALABY

The idea is to make the chambers speak to the governments to implement these proposals.
MICHEL ALABY

As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and i...
MICHEL ALABY

It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.
MICHEL ALABY

According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan ...
MICHEL ALABY

We exported commodities to Somalia.
MICHEL ALABY

She showed interest in learning about the profile of the Brazilian companies so that they may partic...
MICHEL ALABY

Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is ...
MICHEL ALABY

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps ...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of though...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push ...
MICHEL GONDRY

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ...
MICHEL ONFRAY

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury ...
MICHEL FABER

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking c...
MICHEL GONDRY

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which h...
MICHEL FABER

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find...
MICHEL ONFRAY

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that...
MICHEL GONDRY

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro...
MICHEL FABER

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it&#...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m...
MICHEL FABER

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa...
MICHEL FABER

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ...
MICHEL FABER

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-wo...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH

A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH

Many may ask how can we celebrate Christmas and be cheerful with the wall imprisoning us.
MICHEL SABBAH

The Palestinian people should regain their liberty and land with a state and a capital and the Israe...
MICHEL SABBAH

This wall must not exist. One day it will not exist.
MICHEL SABBAH

This position and the confiscation of lands have no reason at all. (The wall) doesn't benefit the se...
MICHEL SABBAH

The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peopl...
MICHEL SABBAH

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.

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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.

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