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Jean-Michel Basquiat

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


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#art #i #life #think #try

I start a picture and I finish it.


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#i #picture #start

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#believe #draw #i #i can

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


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#artist #black #i #i am

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


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#going #i #life #my life #rest

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


#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling

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


#art #critic #critics #find #i

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


#best #completely #ever #had #i

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


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#i #star #wanted

I wanted to build up a name for myself.


— Jean-Michel Basquiat


#i #myself #name #up #wanted






About Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes




Did you know about Jean-Michel Basquiat?

The single's cover featured Basquiat's artwork making the pressing highly desirable among both record and art collectors. He was a successful artist in this period but his growing heroin addiction began to interfere with his personal relationships. On February 10 1985 he appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a feature entitled "New Art New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist".

He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. Utilizing social commentary as a "springboard to deeper truths about the individual" Basquiat's paintings also attacked power structures and systems of racism while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.

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