Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

Jean-Michel Basquiat — American Artist born on December 22, 1960, died on August 12, 1988

Jean‑Michel Basquiat was one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992... (wikipedia)

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

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

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

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