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

Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Topics: Death Quotes

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all...

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all...

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked...

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked...

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot

I start a picture and I finish it.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked...

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked...

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a...

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a...

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in...

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in...

Life is short, wear tropical shirts.

Life is short, wear tropical shirts.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered...

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered...

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines...

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines...

The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these...

The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these...

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.