Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

I wish I could draw.

I was never a good artist.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

I was an absolutely untalented designer.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect.

Mike Mulipola is a fantastic artist.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

The truth is, I don't know how to draw.

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

Art was a huge passion of Jeff's from a very early age. He took a few lessons one summer. He always had a huge passion for art. Loved Dali. Jeff drew and sketched constantly.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.

I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.