 Jean
Michel Basquiat |
Jean
Michel Basquiat was an American contemporary artist
that started out as a grafitti artist and became
very successful as a painter in the 1980s. Basquiat
was a black artist that worked hard, played hard,
took drugs, got famous, and died young at the age
of 27.
Born: 22nd of December, 1960
Country: New York, USA
Died: 12th of August, 1988
Related to Jean Michel Basquiat:
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Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes |
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- Every
line means something.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Meaning,
Lines
- I
start a picture and I finish it. I don't think
about art while I work. I try to think about life.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Art
Work, Life,
Art,
Work,
Thinking
- I
don't listen to what art critics say. I don't
know anybody who needs a critic to find out what
art is.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Meaning,
Art,
Art
Critics
- 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> Work,
Money,
Drugs,
Paintings
- I
was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract
expressionist, or I'd draw a 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 > Art
Work, Artist,
Abstract
, Art
Contests, Expressionist,
Drawing
- I
am not a black artist, I am an artist.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Artist,
Black
- Believe
it or not, I can actually draw.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Drawing,
Belief
- I
want to be a star not a gallery mascot.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Art
Gallery, Famous
- 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 of how
people had become famous.
Jean
Michel Basquiat > Famous,
Feeling,
Encouraging,
Inspirational
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