"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 "Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."― Henri Matisse "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it."― Anais Nin "Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren’t civil war, they are democracy at work, and that’s beautiful."― Sarah Palin