Jean Michel Quotes

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you'll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it's worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature. ~ Jean-Michel Guenassia

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination. ~ Jean-Michel Frank

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement. ~ Jean Michel Jarre

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to build up a name for myself. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I am not a black artist, I am an artist. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Salvador Dali was much too intelligent to be a great painter. And he knew it. ~ Jean-Michel Rene Souche

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad. ~ Tamra Davis

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean. ~ Jean-Michel Cousteau

Music is the human treatment of sounds. ~ Jean Michel Jarre

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now. ~ Jean-Michel Cousteau

We always fear losing our memory, yet it's the source of our troubles. Happy people forget. ~ Jean-Michel Guenassia

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win. ~ Jean-Michel Charlier

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. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I start a picture and I finish it. ~ Jean-Michel Charlier

In due course, I came to classify writers into two categories: those who enabled you to arrive on time and those who caused you to be late. The Russian authors earned me a whole string of detentions. ~ Jean-Michel Guenassia

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

If a financier is willing to pay Millions for a painting it is because he thinks someone, sooner or later,
will pay more. This is why a white canvas can cost Millions. Only an authentic signature is required. ~ Jean-Michel Rene Souche

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. ~ Tamra Davis

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early. ~ Simon De Pury

People will protect what they love. ~ Jean-Michel Cousteau

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that. ~ Heather O'Neill

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. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean. ~ Jean-Michel Cousteau

How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards? ~ Jean-Michel Guenassia

A painter of genius has a bovine mind. He does not think, he only sees. ~ Jean-Michel Rene Souche

Medicine men live in caves. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do. ~ Jean-Paul Belmondo

Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man's fulfillment. ~ Jean Renoir

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so, - the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets. ~ Edward Carpenter

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC. ~ Wyclef Jean

Letters to the Dead"

We read the letters of the dead like puzzled gods --
gods nevertheless, because we know what happened later.
We know what money wasn't repaid,
the widows who rushed to remarry.
Poor, unseeing dead,
deceived, fallible, toiling in solemn foolery.
We see the signs made behind their backs,
catch the rustle of ripped-up wills.
They sit there before us, ridiculous
as things perched on buttered bread,
or fling themselves after whisked-away hats.
Their bad taste -- Napoleon, steam and electricity,
deadly remedies for curable diseases,
the foolish apocalypse of St. John,
the false paradise on earth of Jean-Jacques . . .
Silently, we observe their pawns on the board
-- but shifted three squares on.
Everything they foresaw has happened quite differently,
or a little differently -- which is the same thing.
The most fervent stare trustingly into our eyes;
by their reckoning, they'll see perfection there. ~ Wisława Szymborska

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. ~ Jean Chretien

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it. ~ Jean-Claude Juncker

To philosophize is to learn to die. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The garden was still asleep. I caught it unawares. A garden that hasn't yet begun to think about people. Beautiful. ~ Jean Anouilh

To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice. ~ Jean Cocteau

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I believe in telling it like it is. ~ Alma Jean Irving

When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety. ~ Jean Genet

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. ~ Jean Klein

Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really. ~ David Bailey

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. ~ Michel De Montaigne

In any event people rarely see each other again
these days, even in cases where the relationship begins in an atmosphere of
enthusiasm. Sometimes breathless conversations take place, touching on the general
aspects of life; sometimes, too, a carnal embrace comes about. Sure, you exchange
telephone numbers but, generally speaking, you rarely call again. And even when
you do call and meet up, disillusionment and disenchantment rapidly take over from
the initial enthusiasm. Believe me, I know life; it's all perfectly cut and dried. ~ Michel Houellebecq

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin. ~ Michel Foucault

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks. ~ Jean Piaget

From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their thoughts focused mainly on their looks and their luxurious possessions. ~ Jean Sasson

I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. ~ Spike Jonze

I hang around shepherds because I can't talk to sheep. ~ James Jean-Pierre

Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory. ~ Michel Faber

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football. ~ Michel Patini

If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels. ~ Mayandree Michel

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~ Jean Cocteau

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years). ~ Jean Chatzky