Born in 1960, American artist
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.”
“I am not a black artist, I am an artist.”
“I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.”
“I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.”
mixed graffiti art
“For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head."
“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.”
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