"I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life." ― Jean-Michel Basquiat Topic(s): Art More From Jean-Michel Basquiat "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." More In Art "Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."― Chinua Achebe "In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon."― Billie Joe Armstrong