“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.”

About Jean-Michel Basquiat

Artist • American

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. He first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote...