“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.”

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...