Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

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

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Don't talk about it; write.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.